Where the Rubber Meets the Road: The Importance of a Vertical Hip Strategy for Optimal Running
How running cadence, speed, and endurance are affected by up-down hip torque in the running stride.
Joe Uhan
Title: Stay the Course Columnist
Location: Eugene, Oregon
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Expertise
- Topics of Expertise: Physiotherapy, sports medicine, sports science, run coaching, trail running, ultrarunning
- Amount of Expertise: 25 years of competitive running, including 12 years as an ultrarunner, 20 years coaching running, 13 years of physiotherapy
Education & Certifications
- Education: Bachelor of Arts, Chemistry, University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire; Master of Arts, Kinesiology, University of Minnesota; Doctorate of Physical Therapy, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse
- Years of Professional Experience: 10
- Certifications: Board Certified Orthopedic Specialist in Physical Therapy, Certified Functional Manual Therapist, USA Track & Field Level II Certified Coach
- Club or Association Memberships: American Physical Therapy Association Member
- Other Relevant Positions, Current and Past: Former contributor to Ultrarunning Magazine and Trail Runner magazine
A Word from Joe Uhan
I aim to offer unique clinical and athletic insights on the issues and challenges facing those who pursue and love road, trail, and ultrarunning. My personal interests include all things outdoor exploration, travel, fast running, writing, teaching and mentorship, and beer miling.
Adductor Strength and Mobility for Running Performance
Advice on how to strengthen and mobilize your adductors — an important but often neglected part of a runner’s anatomy.
Biomechanical Considerations for Winter Running
Joe Uhan offers practical solutions to the challenges of winter running.
Heat, Soften, Hydrate, and Move: The Future of Performance Mobility Is Fascial
Stiffness explained and science-backed advice to help with mobility.
Options of Strategies: Developing Multiple Tools for Successful Ultrarunning Performance
An article about strategies and plan Bs for ultrarunning.
The Complex Knee: A Multi-Level Strategy for Sustained Knee Pain Relief
A look at how knee pain while running occurs and how to reduce it with physiotherapy to the hip and ankle.
First-Principles Approaches for Ultrarunning Challenges
An article offering first principles based solutions to the common ultrarunning problems of blisters, cramping, and nausea.
The Chemistry and Timing of Mobility
Here’s some good rationale for a morning mobility and hydration routine.
The Runner’s Pelvis: Keep Your Pelvis Aligned and Mobile for Healthy Running
Learn about keeping the pelvis aligned and mobile.
How to Quit Running, Part 3
A look at how our thoughts and beliefs about our running play a major role in our running performance.
Advanced Soft Tissue Strategies for Lower Leg Pain
Legs hurting you and foam rolling not working? Here are some other tissue mobilizing strategies you can use to help.
How to Quit Running, Part 2
To keep running feeling good through a lifetime in the sport, it’s important to consider these lifestyle factors.
How to Quit Running, Part 1
Joe Uhan almost quit running: here he outlines ways we can climb out of a hole when we want to quit.
Stride Strategies for Achilles Tendon Pain
Achilles tendon pain keeping you down? Give these strategies a try to reduce that pain while running.
When Your Chronic Running Injury Won’t Heal: An Injured Runner’s Guide To Help and Healing
Here’s physiotherapist Joe Uhan’s roadmap to help you recover from a chronic running injury.
The Split Squat Exercise for Run-Specific Strength
Physiotherapist Joe Uhan tells us how to use the split squat to build running strength.
The 10 Commandments of Healthy Running
These commandments of healthy running will lead you to a lifetime of fast and far running.
Elite Feet, Part Two: Toes up for a Strong Stride
Physiotherapist Joe Uhan talks about how strong feet contribute to an efficient and powerful running stride.
The Fall Guy: Part Two
Physiotherapist Joe Uhan discusses lasting injuries caused by falling and how to treat them.
Steep and High: Aerobic Training Strategies for Mountains and Altitude
Physiotherapist Joe Uhan’s strategies for aerobic training in the mountains and at altitude.
Better Living Through Efficient Running
Physiotherapist Joe Uhan explains how efficient running leads to healthier running and living.
Hip Strength and Control for Better Running
How to develop hip strength and control for improved running and overall health.
Side-Door Strategies for Improving Hip Mobility
Here are physiotherapist Joe Uhan’s novel, side-door strategies for improving hip mobility in runners via deep hip-tissue massage.
Whack-A-Mole and Sinking Ship: Compensatory and Repetitive Injuries
Physiotherapist Joe Uhan writes about compensatory and repetitive running injuries.
Getting Warmer: Uhan’s Four-Step Warm-up Routine
Uhan’s four-step warm-up routine to prepare the body for fast or far running.
