s3/e18 Foam Rolling, Fascia, & "Assisted Recovery" with Dr. Duane Scotti, DPT, PhD (@sparkhealthyrunner)
The Running Explained Podcast
Running Explained
4.6 • 534 Ratings
🗓️ 18 May 2023
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
What does foam rolling actually DO and how can you include it appropriately in your training? What about percussion massagers? What is fascia, and what does it do? Does KT actually work? Physical Therapist Dr. Duane Scotti, DPT, PhD (@sparkhealthyrunner) returns to the show to help us understand how these tools can help (or hurt, if used incorrectly) you as a runner?
- Foam rolling 101
- What's the most effective way to utilize a foam roller?
- Understanding fascia
- Percussion massagers; yay or nay?
- Learning the difference between "tightness" and "weakness"
- Static stretching
- Fascia flossing, scraping, and the Graston techniquer
- Does KT taper ACTUALLY do anything?
- and more!
Dr. Duane Scotti, DPT, PhD, OCS is a running physical therapist, run coach, host of the Healthy Runner podcast, and founder of Spark Healthy Runner and has been a leader in the rehab and running community for 20+ years. He is truly living his passion educating the running community that they don’t need to stop running to get over a running injury. Through his signature 1:1 coaching program, weekly videos, and podcast episodes, he empowers runners to get stronger, run faster, and enjoy lifelong injury-free running. Through strength and run-specific training you can build your body to have a strong mind, strong body, and just keep running!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Running Explained podcast. I'm your host, Elizabeth. I'm a marathoner, coach, and answer seeker. |
| 0:07.3 | When I first started running at the age of 29, I had so many questions and what felt like nowhere to turn to for answers. |
| 0:14.2 | And now I'm here to answer all your running questions about anything that you might want to know. |
| 0:18.6 | If you're a new runner or you or even doing this for a long time, |
| 0:21.1 | there's always something more to learn about running. So let's get started. My guest this week is a |
| 0:26.4 | returning guest, Dr. Dwayne Scottie, physical therapist and owner of Spark Healthy Runner. He is an |
| 0:32.6 | incredible wealth of knowledge on a ton of topics, which is why I was so excited to have him |
| 0:37.0 | back for this conversation on foam rolling fascia, which is why I was so excited to have him back for this conversation |
| 0:38.4 | on foam rolling fascia, the kind of assisted recovery tools that we can use in our training. |
| 0:44.3 | If you haven't listened to the episode from season two where he was a guest, we talked about |
| 0:47.6 | plantar fasciitis in great depth and detail. So if you are a person who's been struggling with |
| 0:53.3 | plantar fasciatus, pop over and |
| 0:55.1 | give that episode a listen after you're done listening to this one. But in this episode, we are covering, |
| 0:58.9 | like I said, those assisted recovery tools, foam rolling, you know, flossing, percussion massagers. |
| 1:06.7 | We talk about stretching a little bit. And we talk about what they can and cannot do, how they actually work and what they aren't doing for you and what they're not replacing. |
| 1:17.1 | And we also do finish talking about KT tape. |
| 1:20.5 | And if it actually does anything, stay tuned to find out. |
| 1:24.5 | And please enjoy. |
| 1:26.4 | Dr. Dwayne Scottie, welcome back to the show. How are you? I am doing well. Thank you for having me back, Elizabeth. Well, of course, after our conversation last season about plantifaciatus, which I think is like kind of a go-to resource for a lot of runners now, if you haven't checked it out and you're dealing with planter fasciatus, go give it a listen. I had to have you come back for a round two and pick your brain again. Cool. Yeah. I know I'm always always game for talking shop. And yeah, we had a great chat about planar fasciitis. And I know that was helpful for a lot of your listeners, which was pretty, pretty great to see because, there's a lot of information out there |
| 2:02.6 | on the webs and you do Dr. Google and you don't necessarily find the best treatment for |
| 2:08.6 | runners. |
| 2:09.6 | So that was great and I'm excited to come back on today to talk about some like recovery tools. |
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