Running Gait Retraining: A Sports Medicine Training Gap in Family Medicine

Alexander Knobloch, Maj, USAF, MC, MD, CAQSM, FAAFP of Travis Air Force Base in California is our guest for this Mountain Land Running Medicine Podcast. Dr. Knobloch is a sports medicine physician at the David Grant Medical Center at Travis Air Force Base. He is one of the assistant program directors for the family medicine residency and a core faculty member of the sports medicine fellowship. Dr Knobloch completed medical school at the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, MD,  family medicine residency at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida, and primary care sports medicine fellowship at Fort Belvoir, VA. He enjoys diving into the medical literature and seeking way to optimize rehabilitation programs with a goal of getting family and sports medicine physicians more comfortable talking about and prescribing therapeutic exercises for injury, as well as running gait retraining and how we operationalize this for primary care providers on the front lines of patient care. Knobloch AC. Running Gait Retraining: A Sports Medicine Training Gap in Family Medicine. Fam Med. 2022 May;54(5):384-388. doi: 10.22454/FamMed.2022.405151. PMID: 35536624. The views expressed in this podcast episode are those of the hosts and guest and do not reflect the official policy or position of the US Government, the Department of Defense, the Department of the Air Force, or the Uniformed Services University.