Running Gait Analysis
At The Reinge Clinic we have huge experience working with runners of all levels to achieve their goals, we offer Specialist Running Analysis to work out where your running injuries are coming from and help you to stay pain free.
Whether you are just starting out or are at the elite level, looking for the edge, we can use our Sports Science and Biomechanical knowledge to help you achieve your goals.
Why have a running analysis
The way you run can hugely affect your run times as well as your chances of getting an injury.
When your foot hits the floor in running, you get a ground reaction force that comes up through your body. That ground reaction force can help you, it can make you run more efficiently, or it can hinder you and slow you down.
That force can cause your knees, hips, back and even shoulders to move fluidly together, or they can work against you, creating injuries for the future.
This is why a video analysis of your running is an essential part of your pre race preparation.
What happens during the assessment?
Our running assessment sessions take 50 minutes During this time we will assess your posture and analyse how you run.
We use video technology to video you running out in the real world, this allows us to see how your foot strikes the floor, as well as the effect this has throughout your body all the way form your feet to your head.
Along with your history and our physical assessment, this allows us change your running style to either improve your efficiency of running and therefore your run times, or to get rid of a running injury, or to prevent you getting injured in the future.
Within this session we ask you to run in all of your shoes and we give you advice on the best shoes for you. Everyone is an individual so one shoe type does not work for everyone.
What can we do for running injuries?
Running injures often come from the way your foot strikes the floor. There are a lot of forces involved in running and these forces travel up through the leg and affect the knees, hips and even the back.
When we assess a running injury, we start by assessing the joint or muscle in question. We are looking for balance across the lower body so we will often measure the circumference of your legs to work out whether you are loading one leg more than another.
We will always check out your feet when you come to us with a running issue as this is the only point of contact with the floor and where all the ground reaction forces occur that actually propel you when you run.
Having weak feet or ankles will affect how these forces are dissipated throughout the body and are often the cause of running injuries.
We will always ask you to bring your running shoes and something to run in, so that we can assess the tread of your current shoes to get an idea of how your foot hits the floor.
Next we take you outside and ask you to run while we video you. This usually allows us to understand why you got injured in the first place and work out how to both fix your current injury and stop it reoccuring at a later date. Clients find this element of our assessments fascinating as the way they see themselves on the video, is usually very different to how they thought they were running.
Finally we set you up with a strengthening program and show you how to alter your gait to solve your running injury for the long term.
S Bancroft
I visited the Clinic for a running gait assessment and was really impressed with the information and guidance Ian was able to provide to help me tackle an Achilles problem after a short video assessment. He was very professional, knowledgeable and gave me confidence that the issue is not the end of my running career!
I would recommend him to anyone wanting to get to the bottom of a sports injury. His advice was practical and helpful. Thank you.
It is six years since I had a gait assessment which was on a tread mill. So visiting the clinic for a new gait assessment after all these years was nothing like I expected. Ian’s approach by videoing my gait with me running and then analysing in slow motion was massively revealing.
Even more revealing when I repeated the run in one of my older pair of running shoes. I now understand why I am prone to so many injuries.! Ian was able to give me a series of exercises to help strengthen the weak points that were picked up. A fantastic approach to injury treatment and even better to provide a route to prevention in the future.
A very down to earth and practical advice which has now also helped my rebalance my training regime to help reduce injury and rejuvenate my running. Thank you
I went to the clinic for a running gait assessment with Ian. No specific injury problems, but from the wear on my running shoes I knew there was something not quite right. A very professional approach to not only analysing my style but also identifying the cause of the problem.
Suggested exercises provided which should help, and the offer to review again in a few months if I sent a video. Couldn't really have asked for more.