Runners Get Hurt In The Same Five Places. Almost None Of Them Start Where They Hurt.
A free class for runners who keep getting hurt. Plantar fascia, Achilles, shin splints, IT band, runner's knee. Where each one actually comes from, why it keeps circling back, and what it takes to fix the tissue instead of training around it for another season. In person only.
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What You'll Walk Away With
Three things you'll get out of the 90 minutes.
Where your injury actually starts
Your foot hurts. The problem is usually at your hip, your calf, or the way you load on one side. We'll walk through all five and show you how to trace each one back upstream.
What it takes to actually heal tissue
This is the part nobody explains well. Strengthening trains your body to work around a bad tendon. It's real, it matters, and I prescribe it every day. It also doesn't repair the tendon. Something has to treat the tissue itself, and we'll show you what we use and what the research behind it actually says.
Something to do on Wednesday
You'll walk out that night with an actual next step for your body and your mileage. Not a pamphlet.
In-person class: no recording will be sent.
These classes get interactive fast. People start describing their own surgery, their own injury history, the thing they haven't told anyone about their knee. Nothing from that room goes out afterward, to anybody. There's no replay link and no recording to catch up on later. The tradeoff is that you have to actually show up, and what you get is the version that never leaves the room.
Sound Familiar?
Come if any of this is you.
Marathoners, weekend 5K people, trail runners, and folks who started again at 52 after twenty years off. You don't have to be fast to be in the room. Honestly, most people in these classes aren't.
The same injury keeps coming back. It settles down, you build the miles back, and right around the same number it shows up again.
Somebody told you to rest it and come back in six weeks, and nobody told you what to actually fix in the meantime.
The first mile hurts, then it loosens up, and it's worse the next morning. You've decided this is just your normal now.
You've got a race on the calendar and you're doing math about whether to start it.
You're training harder and getting slower. Nobody has ever measured what your engine is actually doing.
Nothing hurts yet. You want to still be running at 70 and you'd rather build for that on purpose.
Why Nothing Has Stuck
Here's what you've already tried.
I'm not going to pretend any of this was dumb. Most of it is what any reasonable person would do, and some of it is what I would have told you twenty years ago. It just doesn't do the one thing a tendon needs.
Rest
Two weeks off, feels better, you go back, it comes back. Rest takes the load off. It doesn't rebuild anything.
New shoes
Every runner has a shoe story. Sometimes a new pair really does buy you six good weeks, and I'm not going to talk you out of that. But if your hip isn't controlling your leg, nothing on the wall at the running store is fixing that from the ground up.
Stretching and rolling before every run
Twenty minutes of prep to buy one comfortable mile. At some point it's worth asking what you're actually treating.
Cortisone
I'll say the quiet part. For a runner with a tendon problem, I think this one is oversold. It is very good at making pain go away for a while, and that's not nothing when you have a race in nine days. But it doesn't build tissue, and a tendon that stopped hurting is not the same as a tendon that got better. I've had runners walk in three shots deep, wondering why they're worse than when they started.
PT that was fifteen minutes with a doctor and forty-five with an aide
You know the visit. Three bands in a bag and a photocopied sheet with stick figures on it.
How We Actually Treat It
We Don't Just Treat Around The Problem. We Heal The Source, From The Start.
Three things, running at the same time, starting at visit one. Not a phase one and a phase two.
Hands
A doctor's hands on you for 30 to 60 minutes. Finding what's stiff, what's compensating, and what your gait has been quietly covering for.
Exercise
Loading built for your body and your weekly mileage. This is the part that fixes the cause: the pattern, the weak link, the side you've been favoring since 2019. It's most of what rehab is, and we take it seriously.
Regen
EMTT and focused shockwave, aimed at the source: the damaged tissue. No needles, no downtime, and most runners keep running through it.
Why we start regenerative therapy at visit one instead of after you plateau.
Most clinics that own this equipment treat it as a last resort. Try the normal stuff for two months, and if the patient is still hurting, roll out the machine. I think that's backwards, and it's the single biggest thing I'd change about how running injuries get managed. Hands and exercise fix the cause. They rebuild the strength and the pattern around the problem. What they can't do is repair a degenerated tendon at the cellular level. That's the source, and it needs its own tool, and every week you spend not treating it is a week that tissue sat there. So we run all three from the first visit. That's what we call the Regenerative Stack.
What's At Stake
Nobody quits running all at once.
It goes one piece at a time. The hills first, then the long run, then you're a person who used to run.
Your Presenters
Three of us are teaching this one.
Ninety minutes, about twelve runners, and the three doctors who would actually be treating you.
Dr. Jason Han, DPT
Doctor of Physical Therapy, Board Certified Sports Clinical Specialist, former U.S. National Team in Taekwondo. I competed at a level where nobody tells you to rest and hope. You get a diagnosis, a plan, and the best tools available, and it starts that week. Then I opened a clinic and found out that's not how most people get treated at all. Across the clinic we see around twenty runners a month, and it is almost always the same five problems. Over and over, most of them treated one piece at a time by somebody with fifteen minutes. That's the gap this class is about.
Dr. Wayne Wu, DPT
Wayne is the one who won't let a case go. He is genuinely obsessed with the why behind somebody's pain and he keeps digging well past the point where most clinicians would have started treating something. If your injury keeps coming back, he is exactly the person you want looking at you, because a recurring injury is a diagnostic problem before it is a treatment problem. He's covering the cause side: where these five injuries actually start.
Dr. Cheri Chan, DPT
Cheri runs our regenerative program. She built the protocols the rest of our doctors follow and she has trained every clinician in the building on delivering them, which means if you have had shockwave or EMTT at HealthFit, you have been treated by her system whether you met her or not. Tendons are her specialty and her patience with them is longer than mine. She's covering the source side of the class: what regenerative therapy actually does to damaged tissue.
The runner we see over and over.
Fourteen months of heel pain. Two rounds of PT somewhere else, three different pairs of shoes, and a cortisone shot around month nine that bought about six good weeks. By the time she got to us she had stopped signing up for races, because she didn't want to pay for something she might not be able to start. Nobody had ever looked above her ankle. We went after the tissue and the hip at the same time, and the thing she said a few months later had nothing to do with her heel. She'd signed up for something in the fall.
A composite, not one patient. Different people, same story, and we hear some version of it most weeks.
30 to 60 minutes with an actual doctor. The whole session. Every session. This is the thing patients notice first.
EMTT and focused shockwave in the building. Focused, not just radial, and there's a real difference. No referral across town.
We test before we recommend. Nothing gets sold on the spot and nothing here is cookie-cutter.
VO2 max and metabolic testing on site. Your chassis and your engine, measured in the same building. Test, don't guess.
PT, chiropractic, regen, hyperbarics, testing. One roof, one team, no runaround.
Pro-level standards for people who aren't pros. That's the whole idea, and it's why I built the place.
What You'll Learn
The Five Things We'll Cover
Yes, there's some science in here. But the science isn't the point. The point is what it means for your legs and your next season.
The five injuries, and where each one really comes from
Plantar fascia, Achilles, shin splints, IT band, runner's knee. These five fill our schedule. Dr. Wu takes this one, and for each injury he'll show you where it actually originates, which is almost never where it hurts.
Source and Cause
The cause is how you move and how you load. The source is the tissue that's actually damaged. Treat one and skip the other and you get a runner who feels great for six weeks and then doesn't. This is the framework the whole class runs on.
What EMTT and focused shockwave do to a tendon
Dr. Chan runs our regenerative program, so she's teaching this part. Plain English, no hype, and she'll tell you where the evidence is strong and where it isn't. What it feels like, how many sessions, whether you can keep running through it, and how to tell if you're actually a candidate. Plenty of people aren't, and she'll tell you that in the room.
What a VO2 max test tells a runner
Which zones you should actually be training in, and whether you're burning fat or sugar at what you call your easy pace. Most runners are running their easy days too hard and their hard days too easy. You can guess at that, or you can measure it. Test, don't guess.
Building a body that's still running in twenty years
How the hands-on work, the regenerative therapy, and the testing fit together as one plan instead of three appointments.
Included With Your Seat
You also walk out with over $700 worth of stuff.
Everyone who registers and shows up gets all of it. Nothing to buy at the door.
Free access to The Longevity Class, our online program
Self-paced, yours for as long as you want it. How to train, eat, and recover for the decades ahead. We've given this away at our last two live events and it's the thing people email me about months later.
One free 30-minute Discovery Session
Sit down one on one with our wellness coordinator and talk through what's going on with your body. No obligation, and if it needs a doctor's eyes he'll get you in front of one.
Health Expert News, special edition
The issue about how I got from competing to building this place. Take it home.
Total value: $715. Your cost: $0.
No replay and no "we'll send you the link" afterward. If you want the room you have to be in the room.
Proof
You'll hear real cases, not a wall of quotes.
Most clinics hand you a page of five-star reviews and hope you take their word for it. We'd rather walk you through actual runners we've treated and let you ask about them.
Real patient stories and case studies
We'll go through actual cases from our own clinic. What was wrong, what we found upstream, what we did about it, and how long it took. Including the ones that didn't go the way we expected, because those are usually the more useful ones to hear.
Ask your questions out loud
Twelve people in the room. You can describe your own leg and get an answer from the doctor who'd actually be treating it. If one of our patients happens to be there that night, ask them instead. Their answer is worth more than ours.
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