Dr. Rachel Tavel

If the pain is mild enough that you can still walk relatively comfortably and your strength doesn’t seem to be affected, try these exercises to get yourself on the mend.

If you’re a runner, chances are you’ve rolled an ankle at some point. Maybe more than once. Most of the time, you can walk it off. But as most runners know, it just takes one misstep to end up with a sprained ankle. A sprained ankle occurs when one or more of the ligaments surrounding […]

Whether you’re a runner or non-runner, walker or jogger, or anything in between, hip pain is a common problem. There can be many different causes of hip pain, but one common trend seems to emerge—tightness and weakness in the hip muscles usually come with it. Luckily, there are many ways to strengthen and stretch the […]

“Runner’s knee” is one of the more common forms of knee pain experienced by runners.  It starts as a nagging, vague discomfort in and around the kneecap area. Then, it can quickly escalate to a more sharp and acute pain. It usually is felt most during or after running, when going downstairs or walking downhill.  […]

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Just about every runner has heard about the IT band, but not everyone understands it. Usually, runners know about it because they’ve developed nagging knee pain and are told that they should foam roll their IT band. But what exactly is going on when this happens? The IT Band is a band of thickened fibrous […]