Thanh Tang - Performance Physio & Running Clinician

Thanh Tang - Performance Physio & Running Clinician Just your average husband and father of three doing physio things in Spruce Grove, AB. 👋

Grateful for this room full of clinicians committed to learning, collaborating, and raising the standard of care for run...
02/09/2026

Grateful for this room full of clinicians committed to learning, collaborating, and raising the standard of care for runners. 🙌

Physiotherapy, Massage Therapy, and Chiropractic all represented, with clinicians travelling from coast to coast — bringing different backgrounds and perspectives into the same space with a shared purpose: treating runners using the latest evidence-based strategies. 📚

The conversations, questions, and willingness to learn from one another are what move our profession forward. Growth like this doesn’t happen in isolation; it happens when we come together and push each other to improve. 🤝

I’m also grateful for the opportunity to assist in instructing for the first time, and excited to keep learning and growing alongside 🤓

Together, we grow. 🏃‍♂️🤝🌱

02/06/2026

Is running actually bad for your joints? 🧐

In 2017, a systematic review combined data from multiple studies with over 100,000 people to get more answers. 📊

What they found was surprising to many 👀

When it comes to the risk of developing knee or hip osteoarthritis, recreational runners had the LOWEST risk. 👍

Sedentary individuals had a 3x greater risk. 📈

Lastly, elite runners (professionals or internationally competing athletes) have the highest risk. 💥 Likely due to higher lifetime load, volume, and past injuries. 🤷

Moral of the story: be average like me and your knees will be fine. 🥲

Send this to that family member who keeps telling you running is bad for your joints!

PSAA Pro Day • “Better Late Than Never” Edition Things got pushed back a tad this year, but we were super pumped to get ...
02/04/2026

PSAA Pro Day • “Better Late Than Never” Edition

Things got pushed back a tad this year, but we were super pumped to get back out with the .psd and join in on the High School Pro Day! 🙌

Thanks for organizing and to the physio team for the huge assist! 👊

Excited to keep this partnership rolling 🤝

02/04/2026

Exercises only work when the purpose matches the diagnosis. 🔍 Otherwise, you might be feeding the problem. 📉

You scroll Instagram, see “hamstring strengthening for runners,” self-diagnose (or your buddy does), and start loading it in a flexed position. 💥

Suddenly that pain under your “sit bone” gets worse -
because it wasn’t a hamstring strain… it was a compressive proximal hamstring tendinopathy.

Was it the exercise?
Or the wrong tool for the job at the wrong time? 🤔

Sure, I like to share stuff online to educate clinicians and clients - but without a proper diagnosis, these are just ideas.

Don’t guess.
See a professional who actually understands running injuries. 🏃‍♂️

Living the process alongside the many runners I have the privilege to work with. 🏃🏻‍♂️‍➡️ Drawing from both the miles an...
01/31/2026

Living the process alongside the many runners I have the privilege to work with. 🏃🏻‍♂️‍➡️

Drawing from both the miles and the clinic, 2026 is all about bigger goals, smarter training, and stronger runners… myself included. 🙋🏻‍♂️

If you want a physiotherapist who’s in the trenches - on the trails and in the clinic - helping you get the most up-to-date, runner-focused rehab, drop me a 👋 and ask me anything!

01/30/2026

and then there are the Millennials who do all of the above and wonder why their body hurts all the time. 😂

Did I get these ages correct? 😅

01/28/2026

Sometimes the physio has to be the bad guy in the return-to-sport process ⚠️

Not to hold athletes back - but to protect them, their long-term health, and their performance 💪

Return to sport isn’t about rushing timelines; it’s about meeting evidence-driven objective criteria. 📊

Through clear communication, shared expectations, and structured systems, everyone knows where the athlete stands - so there are no surprises, just safer and more confident returns to play ✅

Now not every athlete or clinician has access to this level of testing… so do we lean into “ignorance is bliss” or do we adapt with the times and use the best information available? 🤔

Curious to hear your thoughts 👇

01/25/2026

If your goal is to load the Achilles, seated heel raises are a start… but won’t take you very far. 👀

Research shows seated calf raises place a relatively low demand on the tendon, even when they’re heavy - often less than everyday activities like walking.
(Demangeot et al. 2022)

Standing heel raises, for example, change the stimulus:
• greater leverage
• more muscle involvement
• meaningful tendon loading 📈

Seated work has a role early in rehab…
But runners who want durable, run-ready Achilles tendons need to progress 🏃‍♂️

Unclear of how to progress your loading strategies for runners? 1.2 course on the treatment of running injuries is coming to Alberta on Feb 7-8 and BC on June 6-7!

📚 Demangeot et al., Scand J Med Sci Sports

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Spruce Grove, AB

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Tuesday 7am - 2pm
Wednesday 7am - 1pm
Thursday 12pm - 8pm
Friday 7am - 1pm

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