Spaulding National Running Center

The Spaulding National Running Center and Clinic is one of the premiere sites in the country for the evaluation, treatment and prevention of running-related, musculoskeletal injuries. The Center, located within the Spaulding Outpatient Center Cambridge, is comprised of the Running Injury Clinic, where runners are evaluated and treated, and the Running Research Laboratory, where running biomechanical studies are conducted. The synergy between these two entities ensures the runner that they are being treated with the most recent, evidence-based approaches.

Dr. Irene Davis, PhD, PT, FAPTA, FACSM, Director of the Spaulding National Running Center and member of the Harvard Medical School Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, is an internationally renowned clinician and biomechanist. She has been treating runners, and has focused her research on running mechanics and injuries for 25 years. Her research, funded by the National Institutes of Health and the Department of Defense, has led to innovative approaches to retrain faulty mechanics that are associated with common running-related injuries. Addressing these faulty mechanics not only results in relief of symptoms, it reduces the risk for further injury.