Gait Analysis For Runners: A Modern Approach (Register Interest)
Want A Gait Course Nearer You?
We understand travel is not always easy or possible for many of you, so if there is a particular location where you would like the IN-PERSON Day 3 of ‘Gait Analysis For Runners: A Modern Approach’ to be held, or if you would like to host the course, please let us know by clicking the NEXT button at the bottom of this page and letting us know where would suit you.
How About Glasgow, Scotland in December 2025?
We are currently organising a December course with Day 3 in Glasgow. The course will as always be two ONLINE sessions, then one IN-PERSON day at a venue in Glasgow, to be confirmed. Register you interest by clicking the NEXT button, and join us to attain the knowledge & skills needed to put together a modern, evidence-informed gait analysis service, individualised for YOUR business and YOUR clients’ needs. Includes preparation for both indoor & outdoor gait analysis.
What Is A Modern Approach To Gait Analysis?
Gait Analysis can be a hugely beneficial tool for runners, but often not for the reasons we are traditionally taught. Despite the popular use of Gait Analysis to screen runners for ‘biomechanical flaws’ to reduce running related injury and/or increase running performance, the success of such is often hit & miss. The fact that so many runners still get injured (or re-injured) is testimony to this. In this course, running injury & performance specialist Matt Phillips of runchatlive.com will not only guide you through all of the traditional elements of Gait Analysis, but also draw upon research to highlight the limitations of a solely ‘biomechanical’ approach. With this in mind, we can then consider evidence-informed ways that we can use a gait analysis service to help runners recovery from injury, reduce risk of future injury, and optimise performance.
How Is The Course Structured?
‘Gait Analysis For Runners: A Modern Approach’ is designed to help you put together a modern, evidence-informed gait analysis service that is individualised for YOUR business and YOUR clients’ needs. The course runs over three weeks, with two ONLINE sessions, and then one IN-PERSON day at a location you select from our options. The course is designed for any practitioner interested in starting up a Gait Analysis for runners service, including:
• Sports Massage Therapists
• Sports Therapists
• Soft Tissue Therapists
• Physiotherapists
• Chiropractors
• Osteopaths
Treadmill Or Outdoors?
The course explores all options to allow you to design a gait analysis service that suits YOUR business and YOUR clients, including:
• Indoors with treadmill
• Outdoors with no treadmill
• Using treadmill in a public gym
• Large or small space
• Big or small budget
Course Content
The content of the course is flexible & weighted to the level and needs of participants. Overall, the following elements are included:
• Biomechanics of running – gait cycle, injury & performance
• Causes of running related injury – perceived vs. evidence based
• The relationship of Load, Injury & Pain
• Subjective & Objective Assessment
• Indoor Gait Analysis: 2D vs 3D
• Outdoor Gait Analysis
• Gait modification & re-education
• Strength training for runners
• Footwear – trainers & orthoses
Minimal Requirements Of Qualification:
Anyone with a Level 3 qualification or above is welcome to join the course, but attendees must be aware of their own personal scope of practice, as directed by their personal level of qualification. For example, to assess any injury, a minimum of Level 4 is required, so attendees without Level 4 would in theory be allowed to provide gait analysis as a means of offering symptom modification & support for a runner who has already been assessed for injury by a Level 4 therapist, and not be allowed to offer any form of clinical reasoning to identify the source of injury. Insurance providers will need to be made aware of this.
About The Presenter
Matt Phillips is a Running Injury & Performance Specialist with over ten years of clinical experience in a multidisciplinary practice. He created his website Runchatlive.com and the Runchatlive Podcast to help MSK therapists, coaches & runners move beyond outdated approaches, and adopt a more evidence-informed approach for injury prevention & management. A sought-after speaker at national and international conferences, Matt has contributed to numerous websites and magazines and spent time in Nairobi helping establish one of the first gait analysis clinics in Kenya. His hybrid CPD course, ‘Gait Analysis For Runners: A Modern Approach‘, offered online and in-person, is highly popular.
Matt also has a long history of working in further education, helping a diverse range of students & professionals improve their communication skills. He has recently launched a new online CPD course ‘Communication & Behaviour Change Skills for Clinical Practice‘ , blending evidence-based communication techniques with practical behaviour change models to provide health care practitioners with a selection of approaches to help clients & patients embrace positive, meaningful behaviour change, and see opportunity in professional advice rather than hinderance & challenge. Full details are available at The ST School website.
Matt is also host of the Sports Therapy Association Podcast, now in its fifth year. Recorded live every Tuesday on the Sports Therapy Association YouTube channel since November 2020, the podcast is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube.
