APTA Rehabilitating the Runner: A Simple Approach to Evaluation, Treatment, and Return to Sport

Strengthen your ability to evaluate running-related injuries, develop targeted rehabilitation strategies, and safely progress runners back to sport.

Explore differential diagnosis and examination of common running-related injuries, including tendinopathies, bone stress injuries, and other lower-quarter conditions. Apply evidence-based approaches to exercise prescription, clearance testing, and individualized return-to-run and return-to-sport programming while considering the clinical, physiological, and psychosocial factors that influence recovery.

What You’ll Learn

By completing this course, you'll be able to:

• Explain foundational principles of bone biology, tendon biomechanics, and bone stress injury development, including relevant risk factors such as RED-S and the athlete triad.
• Differentiate common running-related injuries across the lower quarter using subjective screening, objective examination, functional testing, and running gait analysis.
• Apply evidence-based clinical decision-making to manage low- and high-risk running injuries, identify red flags, and determine when surgical referral may be appropriate.
• Design individualized return-to-run and return-to-sport programs based on injury severity, examination and imaging findings, and progression of training variables.
• Integrate clinical, physiological, and psychosocial considerations into comprehensive rehabilitation planning for runners.

Course Highlights

• Live, interactive learning: Participate in a six-hour, in-person course focused on the evaluation, rehabilitation, and return to sport of runners.
• Clinical decision-making: Strengthen your ability to differentiate common running-related injuries and make rehabilitation and progression decisions based on the individual athlete's presentation.
• Return-to-sport programming: Develop individualized return-to-run and return-to-sport progressions for common injuries affecting the trunk and lower extremity.
• Earn CEUs: 0.6 CEUs (6 contact hours)

Registration Rates

• APTA member PTs, PTAs, and post-professionals: $279
• Nonmembers: $429

Additional Registration Information

• Registration closes: Oct. 16, 2026
• Live event date: Saturday, Oct. 24, 2026 | 10:00 a.m.-5:00 p.m.
• Location: APTA Centennial Center, 3030 Potomac Ave., Alexandria, VA 22305
• Capacity: Limited to 50 participants. If the course reaches capacity, you will have the option to join the waitlist.

This course is part of the 2nd Annual Marine Corps Marathon Weekend CEU event.

Navigating Your Course

• Select the Contents tab to review the course requirements and access the session recording once it has been posted.
• Click Take Quiz to complete the course assessment. A passing score of 70% or higher is required.
• Select Fill Out Survey under Course Evaluation to submit your feedback. Be sure to scroll through each question, as some answer choices may extend beyond the visible window.
• Click View/Print Your Certificate under Certificate to access your certificate. You can also view or print your certificate at any time from the CEU Certificate/Transcript section in the APTA Learning Center.

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