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Mandy Wainfan

Sports chiropractor, ultramarathon runner, and Girls Cross Country Head Coach at Long Beach Poly High School specializing in running injuries and endurance sports rehabilitation

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PODCASTS

Aug 21, 2026

The Extramilest Podcast

The Extramilest Podcast

#135: Running Injury Specialist's Guide to Treating Common Injuries

Aug 21 · 1h 27m

Floris GiermanHOST

62:48

What do you see there when you're working with runners?

Mandy WainfanGUEST

62:51

Yeah.

Mandy WainfanGUEST

62:52

The, the back is the sneaky culprit of a lot of other injuries.

Mandy WainfanGUEST

62:55

I think we, we talked a little bit about pseudo plantar fasciitis.

Mandy WainfanGUEST

63:00

There is also pseudo Achilles.

Mandy WainfanGUEST

63:02

There's pseudo IT bands.

Mandy WainfanGUEST

63:04

Um, but when you're having back pain specifically at the back, it can come from a couple different places.

8 MINS LATER

Floris GiermanHOST

71:26

... have tried A, B, and C is for you to get this fixed?

Blueprint to Ultra

Blueprint to Ultra

Episode 44: Mandy Wainfan - Injured? Whatever you do, just don't tell me I can't run.

Jun 12 · 1h 28m

Jeff WinchesterHOST

59:57

through.

Mandy WainfanGUEST

59:57

The difference is more is does it radiate? Is it also in concurrence with a different area? So not necessarily a sciatica, like it doesn't have to hurt all the way down your hamstring.

Mandy WainfanGUEST

60:09

It can be like I have a little back pain and my foot hurts kind of in a plantar fasciitis way.

Mandy WainfanGUEST

60:15

But there's radicular pain.

Mandy WainfanGUEST

60:18

There is just local low back pain.

Mandy WainfanGUEST

60:20

And the two main diagnostic spots of that is a disc problem.

Mandy WainfanGUEST

60:27

There's different categories, disc bulge, herniation, extrusion, all that.

Steve EpifanoHOST

64:15

So it's great.