Running Platinum Assessment

Injuries we Treat

Heel Pain like Plantar Fasciitis

Arch Pain related to dropped arches

Posterior Tibialis dysfunction

Forefoot pain such as Mortons Neuroma

Stress fractures

Achilles Tendon problems

Shin splints such as medial tibial stress syndrome

Runners Knee

Hamstring issues

ITB problems

Low back and hip flexor tightness

All of these are related to how you run and this is related to how your feet work.

We Offer Three Main Services

Understanding Your Injury

Injuries are one of the biggest challenges runners face. Our goal isn’t just to treat your symptoms—we focus on identifying the root cause. Running injuries are repetitive strain injuries and often result from your body compensating for training issues or trauma, sometimes without you even realising it. The painful area is often not the issue, but where your body has broken down.

Our bodies are clever—they adapt to keep us going by subtly altering our stride, posture, and movement patterns. While these changes are helpful short term, they can lead to problems when your body can no longer keep up with the demands you’re placing on it. A compensation leads to an overload and your body adapts, which leads to an overload somewhere else. We aim to identify these issues and then ensure treatment is directed at the real cause of the problem and not just the symptoms.

Injury Prevention

This can be a tricky area as running issues usually have a variety of factors that come together and lead to the injury. But a full running assessment will try to identify where you may be at risk. This can be useful if you are looking to increase your running training.

Performance Improvement

If you want to go further or faster then making changes to your technique is one way to help this process. Small changes to your posture for example can really make big differences. Understanding how and why you move as you do is really helpful. It also shows where you need to focus your efforts with training, technique and complementary strength and conditioning.

Know When to Seek Help

If you’re feeling those familiar warning signs—or ignoring them—we get it. We’ve been there too. Now is the time to reach out before something gives.

We’ll work with you to understand both the symptoms and what’s causing them. Using a variety of assessments, we’ll uncover the source of the issue and create a personalised treatment plan that not only relieves pain but addresses the underlying cause—whether it’s something recent or from the past.

High Tech

We use a variety of technology for the assessment and orthoses if required. This coupled with expert knowledge of injury, pain management, symptom treatment and biomechanics give you a complete and often new way to look at your injury and performance.

Meet Colin

Ask to book an appointment with Colin—an experienced runner who’s worked with athletes of all levels. He understands the frustration of being sidelined and focuses on keeping you active as much as possible. Because we know that the body heals better when it’s moving—just not too much, too soon.

Get in Touch

If you’d like to learn more or book an assessment, we’d love to hear from you.

Book Online

https://colpod-therapies.au1.cliniko.com/bookings?practitioner_id=131689&appointment_type_id=400474

1.5 hours £175

We Treat You and Your Way of Moving

We will take a full history and discuss with your running history and what you think has led to the injury, previous treatments and running goals. We assess the injured area and look at how your feet and body work together. The assessment is key to ensure treatment is specific for you, your injury and the way your body works.

Footscan

Footscan uses pressure plate technology to provide information on how feet respond to loading and how the body moves over them, aiding in understanding movement patterns and potential injuries. This shows us detail that a video analysis is unable to provide and essential for helping with orthoses and footwear choices.

Video Analysis

The video analysis provides comprehensive information on how an individual functions, including movement patterns and potential links to injury or performance issues. This information is valuable for post-treatment reviews.

Treatments

We may use a variety of options and will fully explain what we feel you need to do and a timeline of what to expect. We could use any or a combination of the following:

Gain an understanding of load management and how to judge how much stress and strain you are loading your bones and soft tissues
Address symptoms – this is usually pain and is your body trying to protect you from more damage occurring.
Pain is not always related to damage, especially with long standing chronic injuries. Pain is your bodies response to previous injury.
Orthoses – these are usually custom made specifically to your function and the movements we are trying to address. These are made using 3D printing and design process.
Manual therapy – this addresses tension in tissue and bone and helps restore normal function and desensitises pain response.
Shockwave – we use radial shockwave to help healing processes and change tissue response to loading forces.
Gait retraining – we look at how we can safely change your movements.
Specific exercises and running drills to address your function and stuck movement patterns.
Referral to our surgeon for ultrasound / injection therapy.

Ultrasound/Injection Therapies

Ultrasound scans of feet and ankles allow us help with diagnosing what structures are injured and to what extent. This can help to direct treatment very effectively. This gives us valuable information with regard to loading rates. Really helpful with Achilles or plantar fascia issues.

Pricing

Platinum Running Assessment
£175

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