It doesn't matter what level of runner you are. We welcome runners who are participating in their first couch to 5km, to runners training for their first marathon, to those competing on the World stage. One thing we all have in common as runners are that at some stage we are likely to pick up an injury. We help you understand why you hurt, reduce any fear and get you back safely to doing what you love to do.

As well as treat your symptoms we want to understand the potential causes underlying your running injury. We think that assessing your running is the best way to do this. Assessing both the forces you are subjected to when running and the capacities of your tissues to tolerate these forces allows us to tailor a rehabilitation programme that is specific to you. You don't have to wait until you are pain-free to come and see us, rather book an assessment when you can tolerate running for a few minutes as this allows us to help expedite your rehabilitation and get you back to running as quickly as possible.

We often have people travel from afar and as a result, have developed a methodology that allows you to take responsibility for your rehabilitation. This doesn't mean that you are going to be left to your own devices, rather, we work together, using data to change behaviour, using your feedback to continuously shape your rehabilitation programme, to encourage, motivate and empower you to use what is meaningful to you...running...to help you get back to running. So you will not be tied into multiple sessions or packages that interfere with your busy life, rather a simple running assessment where we get to listen to you, understand your hopes, dreams and fears and use the data to put a plan into place.

There are many factors that contribute to why we may pick up a running-related injury and yes biomechanics do matter, however, so do lifestyle factors, stress, training programmes, nutrition, previous running injuries, our thoughts and belief structure surrounding injury and pain. So whereas a running shop will often give you some feedback on how you run, what your foot is doing when you run and the footwear which might be suitable for you, we want to go deeper, understanding that running injuries are often more than just faulty biomechanics, we want to understand you.

You can continue to see your physiotherapist. A visit to The Running Lab does not have to be an either-o, rather see an assessment as being complementary to the treatment that you are receiving. An assessment where we assess you running allows us to understand why you might have sustained a running-related injury. This information allows us to formulate a rehab plan, often using running as the key component in itself to help you get back to pain-free running.