Expert Gait Analysis Stafford

How Chase Run Lab Can Help You

Running is a very injury-prone sport, and any injury will impact your ability to run at the level you want:

• You might be considering running for the first time for personal reasons, like losing weight or reducing mental stress. You might need to be properly prepared to run an event to raise money for a charity. Without a guiding hand from an expert, your chances are that you will soon suffer the pain of injury. Without proper coaching, mentally, you can quickly lose the drive to succeed.
• You are already running but fail to reach your goals because of repeated injury or pain in your legs, back, feet, ankles, hips or knees.
• Are you an experienced runner needing to stop any niggles from turning into injuries, to stay in shape for a busy race schedule?

When you arrive at the clinic, the chances are it’s because you are in pain.  Our first task is to determine what kind of injury you have that will be causing that pain. Typical examples will be

• Achilles tendinopathy (pain at back of heels)
• ITB Syndrome (pain outer thigh)
• Runner’s knee
• Back pain
• Shin splints (pain at front of leg below knee)

Research shows that some of the biggest injury risk factors are linked to your running form and the problem might be in the upper body, for example the way you swing your arms, so it’s vital that the assessment does not only focus on the foot and ankle.

We use the latest software to analyse the way you move and show you the results on a large screen so you can see for yourself exactly what the problems are, to guide our injury management approach and to help us decide the best course of action for your injury. It may be a course of shockwave therapy, an

We offer a complete package of care with our excellent team of sports physiotherapists, pain relief specialists, acupuncturists, plus specialists in running gait, biomechanical and exercise.

Once you are out of pain we will look at how you run, your technique, and develop a plan to reduce your chances of injury reoccurring, by eliminating that part of your running style that promotes injury and pain.

Most injuries result from chronic overload and we will work with you to reduce the loading on these overstressed tissues. Our goal is to teach you to run more efficiently with less stress.