The Runner: Building A Resilient Athlete
When:
Saturday June 21st and Sunday June 22nd 2025
Where:
Precision Performance & Physical Therapy
1145 Zonolite Rd. Suite 10
Atlanta, GA 30306
Sign up:
$425 early bird / $525 after April 1st (10 hours)
Sat 9-5:30, Sunday 9-12
$175 add on for female runner specifics (4 hours)
Sunday 1:00-5:00
Who is it for?
This course has been built with physical therapist that currently treat or want to treat running athletes in mind. However, all healthcare providers and PT students are welcome.
CEUs
13.75 CEUs (Approved by: APTA GA)
Course Overview
Runners experience high injury rates and face evolving training philosophies, footwear trends, and recovery methods. This course equips practitioners with evidence-based tools to assess, treat, and support runners beyond injury management. It covers the causes of running injuries, debunks common misconceptions, and explores performance and recovery essentials.
Topics include gait analysis and re-training, running shoes, clinical reasoning, overuse injury management, running specific exercise and drills, key physiological differences between male and female runners and return to run. Emphasizing interdisciplinary collaboration, the course offers a holistic approach to optimizing runners' health and longevity. By the end, you'll confidently address runners' needs and enhance their performance.
Your instructors are running medicine physical therapists and the official physical therapy team for the Atlanta Track Club Elite. As part of a multidisciplinary care team, they help elite athletes stay healthy and perform their best. But they don’t just work with pros—they treat runners of all ages and backgrounds every day. Join us to learn from experts who understand what it takes to keep runners strong, healthy, and doing what they love.
**Optional 4-hour add-on female athlete specific course
Expanding on treating the running athlete, focusing on the unique physiological, biomechanical, and hormonal considerations of female runners. From adolescence to menopause, we’ll explore how hormonal changes impact training, injury risk, and performance. Using the latest research, participants will learn evidence-based strategies for evaluating, treating, and optimizing care for female athletes. This session is available only to those enrolled in the full course and is ideal for practitioners looking to enhance their expertise in female-specific sports medicine.
Dr. Kate Mihevc Edwards PT, DPT, OCS
Course Schedule
Day One
9:00 am-5:30 pm (1 hour lunch)
Welcome, Course Introduction, objectives
Patient population, attitudes, beliefs
Running shoes, levels of support, orthotics, carbon
Causes of running Injury, common running injuries, risk factors, differential diagnosis
Overtraining, symptoms, signs, cause, involvement of stress (physical/mental/emotional), how to track and prevent overtraining
REDs /LEA
Difference between male / female Runners
Runner Evaluation: subjective, running specific questions, outcome measures, objective, functional testing (this is some lab)
Biomechanics
Questions, Wrap up
Day Two
9:00 am-12:00 pm
Questions from previous day
Gait analysis: Basics, How to, what to look for, examples (lab component)
Gait retraining: when, why, how, cues, drills etc (lab component)
Runner specific exercise (lab component)
Return to run post injury
Working with multidisciplinary team
Questions, Wrap up
Day Two
*Optional +Train Like A Girl
1:00 am-5:00 pm
Female athlete spectrum
Middle School / High school
Menstrual cycle and impact on injury and sport
Pregnant runner
Postpartum runner
Menopause
Female specific training adaptions / concepts