Imagine you, but running pain-free. 

OliveRunning was created out of a serious necessity - 

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Runners (and most athletes!!) do not receive proper care for their injuries.

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It's a hard truth, but traditional clinic-based physical therapy doesn't have the resources to get athletes back to their sport. 

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If you've been to physical therapy, your care most likely had some of the following characteristics: 

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1. A PT who had one or more other patients at the same time. 

2. A treatment that relied heavily on massage, electrical stim or adjustments.

3. Exercises that rarely progressed or felt actually hard (if you can do more than 15 reps in a row, it's not challenging enough!) 

4. A treatment consisting of mostly exercises that you did lying down. 

5. No progression in weights or to plyometrics.

6. No clear return to run protocol.

7. No real way to test your strength (pushing into a therapist's hand is not an accurate measurement!) 

8. A PT aide to take you through exercises with no real knowledge of why the exercises were prescribed and what specific alterations to make for you.

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Most physical therapy clinics look exactly like what I described above ^^ and if your experience even had one or two of those characteristics, you weren't receiving research-based care, which is why PT probably didn't work for you. 

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And as a frustrated PT caught in the middle of this system, feeling helpless while trying to truly help my patients, I left to create an ethical, evidence-based business. 

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OliveRunning was created for you by a runner who saw the desperate need so many runners had to receive legitimate, effective care that would get them back to what they loved. 

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I'm glad you found OliveRunning - the purpose is to keep you running for life.