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When Running Is Taken Away: Who Are You Then? | JoAnne Bullard
What happens when the sport that helps define you suddenly disappears?
Dr. JoAnne Bullard is a sport and performance psychologist who has spent years helping athletes navigate injury, confidence, identity and the mental side of endurance sports. Then she became the injured athlete.
After years of unexplained pain, JoAnne was eventually diagnosed with bilateral chronic compartment syndrome. What followed wasn't the clean comeback story athletes like to imagine.
There were doctors who didn't have the answer. Physical therapy. Three surgeries. An infection. A stress fracture. Months on crutches…
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