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Michaela Khan

Michaela Khan

PhD candidate and running-biomechanics researcher at the University of British Columbia, lead author of a Sports Medicine systematic review on running and lower-limb cartilage.

Sep 6, 2026

The Run Smarter Podcast

The Run Smarter Podcast

Re-Run: The Cartilage Response to Running with Michaela Khan (Oct, 2023)

Sep 6 · 51m

Brodie SharpeHOST
24:47
How would you guide people around the physiological range?
Michaela Khan
Michaela KhanGUEST
24:52
That's a question I don't fully know the answer to yet.
Michaela Khan
Michaela KhanGUEST
24:57
So I mean, a lot of what we do is guided by pain.
Michaela Khan
Michaela KhanGUEST
25:00
But as I mentioned, the cartilage itself, it doesn't have any nerves.
Michaela Khan
Michaela KhanGUEST
25:04
So you don't really get a pain response from the cartilage itself.
Michaela Khan
Michaela KhanGUEST
25:08
But it would be listening to other things in your body that are causing pain.
Michaela Khan
Michaela KhanGUEST
25:13
So whether it be yeah, muscles, ligaments, tendons, something like that.

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Brodie SharpeHOST
44:34
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