Injured? You’re probably not broken.
Online running injury assessments that find the actual cause, explain it in plain English, and give you a plan that fits your training week.
Mark Grayson — sports injury specialist, Lydiard Level II coach, and a runner of 40 years who’s been exactly where you are.
Assessed online, wherever you are · No waiting list · A plan, not a protocol · Evidence-led, jargon-free
Sound familiar?
You’ve read everything and you’re none the wiser
- The same niggle comes back every time you build up your mileage
- You’ve been told to rest, but nobody’s told you what to do after that
- You’ve bought new shoes and it hasn’t made any difference
- You’re quietly worried you’ve done something permanent
- You’ve stopped enjoying running, and that’s the part that stings
None of that means you’ve damaged yourself. It usually means nobody has taken the time to work out what’s actually driving it — and then explained it to you properly.
That’s the whole job.
Three ways to get moving again
All delivered online, so it doesn’t matter where you live or how booked-up your local clinic is.
Running technique analysis
£85
Film yourself on your phone and send it over. I break it down frame by frame and send back a report with two or three cues you can actually hold in your head mid-run.
Where I’d start you
Full assessment + analysis
£150
An hour with me on video plus the full technique analysis. We find the cause rather than chase the symptom, and you get a written plan built around your actual week.
Go on to coaching and your first month is free.
Coaching
£75 / month
Plans built from your assessment, strength work, and a weekly check-in that catches the problem while it’s still small. Coached by someone who assesses injuries for a living.
How it works
Get in touch
Tell me where it hurts and what your running looks like at the moment. I’ll come back to you within a day.
We talk it through
Forty-five minutes on video. Your history, your training load, and some movement testing I’ll guide you through at home.
You get your plan
A written summary within 48 hours: what’s going on, why, what to do this week, and what the next few weeks should look like.
We adjust as you go
Injuries don’t heal on a spreadsheet. Follow-ups are there when you need to change course.
About Mark
I was the runner nobody could explain it to
I started running at ten and raced for the next eight years — county representation, a couple of world championship triathlons. Then at eighteen I went down mid-run and couldn’t get up.
I saw a back specialist and the hospital physio team. What I mostly got was blame — the sense that being in pain was somehow my own fault.
So I went and learned it myself. And the more I understood, the better I got.
I got back to running, then back to racing. Since 2013 I’ve been helping other runners do the same — these days fully online, so it doesn’t matter where in the country you are.
The qualifications matter and I’ve got them. But the thing that makes me useful to you is that I know exactly what it’s like to be stopped in your tracks and given no useful explanation.
Straight answers
The questions I get asked every week — including the ones where the honest answer is “we don’t really know”.
Should I ice a running injury?
Probably not. Inflammation is how your body repairs itself — ice and anti-inflammatories suppress it. Ice numbs, which helps if you can’t sleep, but it won’t speed healing.
Are my shoes causing my injury?
Almost certainly not. There’s very little evidence that shoes cause injury. For the vast majority of runners, a basic pair that fits your feet and feels comfortable is fine. Look at your training load instead.
Will running hurt my joints?
No — and the pooled evidence points the other way. Recreational runners show less hip and knee arthritis than people who don’t run at all. It’s an association rather than proof, and I’ll say so, but there’s nothing behind the idea that running wrecks your knees.
Have I damaged my body?
Very rarely. Pain is not a measure of damage — it usually indicates a sensitive area or a protective response to get your attention.
Should I be stretching?
Do what you enjoy. The evidence for stretching is thin — but so is the evidence against it. Conditioning work is probably a better use of the same twenty minutes.
When should I get help with a running injury?
Take a break, rest, and see how things feel over 24–48 hours. If the pain hasn’t settled, or it keeps returning to the same spot, get it looked at properly.
Let’s find out what’s actually going on
Get a real explanation, a plan you can follow, and a way back to running you enjoy.
Run happy and injury free.