This past weekend I, along with Forster Physical Therapy staff therapist Amy Tran, DPT, along with Phase IV Exercise Physiologist, Brian Washburn, manned the Phase IV Mobile Lab at the LA Roadrunners hill training session at Dodger Stadium. We performed over 35 complimentary injury evaluations on desperate runners who have found themselves injured just three weeks before the 2014 Asics Los Angeles Marathon. Their injuries were all of the common afflictions we have typically seen in runners: illiotibial (IT) band syndrome (covered in last week's newsletter), Achilles tendonitis, hamstring strains, shin splints, and plantar fascitis.

This is the problem: in the three decades I have been tending to runners, the training acumen among the average marathoner has progressed very little.

The Phase IV Mobile Lab brings assessment and treatment services to events such as the Malibu Triathlon and the LA Marathon.

With all the advances in the science of endurance training, elite runners continue to break records but this information is not getting to the masses who need it the most. They still suffer needlessly. Our work with the Roadrunners over the last eight years has been focused on improving their knowledge of training science and injury prevention. Recently we were named as the exclusive physical therapy provider of the LA Marathon and we hope to make a bigger impact on all registered runners. 

Please forward this newsletter to anyone running the marathon this year and let them know we will help them stay on track with complementary injury evaluations and performance consultations as they enter their last month of preparation for this year race.

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Robert Forster PT

CEO and Founder of Phase IV Scientific Health and Performance Center

Every day we see research that shows exercise is the best medicine to keep your body working well and for the prevention and treatment of many of the lifestyle diseases that plague our population. Exercise is powerful medicine and, like with all medicine, proper use is critical to get the best results and avoid injury.

Robert Forster, PT, treated skeet shooter Kim Rhode and track sprinter Allyson Felix in the run up to the London Olympics.

  

Phase IV founder and CEO Robert Forster, PT, is a leading expert in physical therapy, physiology, and metabolic training, with over thirty years' experience with professional athletes -- experience he translates to athletes and everyday individuals of all levels as well. 

 

In the run up to the 2012 London Olympics, Forster treated skeet shooter Kim Rhode for various impingement syndromes, developing her range of motion and strength in order to continue to compete at the highest level.

 

"We worked every day, doing small things. It's amazing how it's such a chain reaction," Rhode told NBC4's Dr. Bruce Hensel of her treatment.

 

Sprinter Allyson Felix, on the other hand, "was born with a great gift for speed. What we needed to develop was the strength and resilience of her body," Forster told Hensel of the 200-meter London gold medalist. "From [metabolic testing] we can see what kind of workouts they need to tax their energy systems and bring their efficiency higher. Not only does it diagnose where they're strong and where they're weak, but it lays out a map for the future of how to develop the right energy systems to make their fitness match the event they're in."

 

Both Felix and Rhode went on to win gold medals in London.

 

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Phase IV and Forster Physical Therapy, the Official Physical Therapy provider for the LA Marathon, are now the Exclusive Providers of EC3D gear in Los Angeles!

 

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Office: 310-656-8600  www.forsterpt.com

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Office: 310-582-8212  www.phase-iv.net

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