What can runners do to improve a bad stance or gait?

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Jay Dicharry
Director, UVA Health System
www.healthsystem.virginia.edu  
434-243-5622

Jay Dicharry MPT, CSCS, is the Director of the SPEED Performance Clinic and the Motion Analysis Lab Coordinator at the University of Virginia . Originally from New Orleans , LA , Jay received his BS from the University of Southern Mississippi in Exercise Physiology in 1997. In 2001, Jay completed the Master of Physical Therapy degree at Louisiana State University Medical Center . He has pursued additional course work in exercise physiology and wilderness medicine, and is a Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist through the National Strength & Conditioning Association and a certified coach through both the United States Track and Field Association and the United States Cycling Federation. Jay has a competitive history in swimming, triathlon, cycling, and running events on both the local and national level. He serves as the Coach of the Masters Swimming program for the City of Charlottesville . Jay has helped to organize and presented at the annual UVA Running Medicine conference and has been published in a medical review text. He has been an invited lecturer in the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation residency and the Exercise Physiology department at the University of Virginia. Jay's research and treatment interests lie in the biomechanics and treatment of athletes. Jay is the husband of his wife Asha and the servant of his loyal dog, Turbo.

What can runners do to improve a bad stance or gait?

In this video, Jay Dicharry, director of the SPEED Performance Clinic and the Motion Analysis Lab Coordinator at the University of Virginia Health System, discusses what runners can do to improve a bad stance or gait.

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Host: What can runners do to improve a bad stance or gait?

Jay Dicharry: I think the key thing that we can do for runners to improve injury and economy, is to look at how well we as the athletes control our body. When we run we are experiences forces about two-and-a-half times our body weight such things, as core strength and stride length or cadence become phenomenally important to look at how we deal with those forces. One of the problems individuals have is that they tend over stride. Over striding puts our body in a position to have the excessive forces at the wrong time, leading to tissue breakdown.

Poor core strength can also cause excessive motion plane, not necessarily the sagittal plane at which we run. But in the lateral planes and the rotational planes which result in all these injury to those muscles and ligaments and tendons.

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