How to get tailored treatment vs cookie cutter protocols

Imagine this scenario. You are out on a long run. You have been training hard for your race. But near the end of your run, your foot starts to ache a little bit.

The next day when you wake up, it hurts. So maybe you take a day off, you don't run that day, and you skip a workout. 

The day after that, you go for a run and predictably it gets worse.

You call your local podiatrist. You make an appointment and when you're in the doctor's office, the doctor hands you a pre-written sheet (that is not designed for runners,) but designed for anybody that comes in with a metatarsal stress fracture or with plantar fasciitis or with Achilles tendonitis, or whatever. Those instruction sheets are not written for runners.

They're written for anyone and everyone who has that injury. It's supposed to fit everybody. Does that make any sense?

Today on the Doc On The Run Podcast, we're talking about how to get tailored treatment instead of some cookie cutter treatment plan when you go to the doctor with an overtraining injury.