Here are some answers about Rungevity, running decisions, safety, and physio-guided support.
Rungevity is built to help runners make clearer next-run decisions. These FAQs explain what the decision tool does, how Decision Reports work, and when physio review may be useful.
Answer a few questions about your last run and body response.
Create a plain-language next-step report from your running response.
Request a closer physiotherapy review when your decision is unclear.
Read practical guides and articles as the decision library grows.
FAQ
Rungevity is a running decision support tool that helps runners decide whether to progress, progress with caution, repeat, reduce, rest, or seek review based on symptom and recovery response. It combines practical education, check-ins, Decision Reports, a free decision tool, and optional physio review for unclear running decisions.
Rungevity is mainly for injured, sore, or returning runners who feel unsure about the next step after a run. It is useful when you are rebuilding after time away, managing recurring niggles, following a plan, or trying to understand whether your body appears to be tolerating the current load.
No. Rungevity does not replace your running plan, coach, Garmin, Strava, Runna, or physiotherapist. It sits beside those tools as a decision layer. The goal is to help you interpret your running response and decide whether the next planned step should be progressed, repeated, reduced, rested, or reviewed.
Yes. Rungevity is designed to sit beside your existing plan, coach, physio, Garmin, Strava, Runna, or spreadsheet. It helps interpret your running response, not replace your training platform. You can keep following your plan while using Rungevity to check whether your body appears to be tolerating it.
FAQ
These are possible next steps after a run-response check. Progress means a modest increase may be reasonable. Progress with caution means one signal deserves monitoring. Repeat means keeping the same run. Reduce means using an easier lower-risk alternative. Rest means pausing running briefly. Seek review means getting professional input when symptoms are concerning.
Sometimes runners continue with mild symptoms, but the decision depends on the pain pattern and how your body responds. Mild discomfort that settles quickly is different from pain that worsens, changes your running form, causes limping, or affects daily activities. Rungevity helps you organise those signals before deciding the next step.
Next-morning stiffness can give useful information about how your body tolerated the previous run. Mild, short-lived stiffness may be less concerning than stiffness that lasts longer, feels worse than usual, or changes how you move. It should be interpreted alongside pain, fatigue, recent training, and your overall response.
A flare-up usually means you should avoid blindly pushing forward. The next step may be to repeat, reduce, rest briefly, or seek review depending on symptom strength, whether symptoms settle, and whether they affect walking or daily life. The decision tool can help you think through the main signals.
The 10% rule only looks at training volume. It does not account for pain, stiffness, fatigue, injury history, stress, sleep, surfaces, intensity, or missed training. A sensible progression decision should consider both what you did and how your body responded.
FAQ
The checker asks about pain, next-morning stiffness, gait changes, fatigue, recent training, and seek-review signs. It then creates a simple Decision Report suggesting whether your next step may be to progress, progress with caution, repeat, reduce, rest, or seek review. It is a practical education tool, not a diagnosis.
Rungevity provides general running education and decision support based on self-reported symptoms and training response. It does not replace physiotherapy, medical care, urgent care, or in-person assessment when needed. Physio review can provide a closer look at your Decision Reports, but it still has clear boundaries.
No. Rungevity does not diagnose injuries. It helps you track symptoms, training response, risk drivers, protective factors, and decision signals so the next step is easier to think through. Diagnosis requires appropriate clinical assessment, context, and professional judgement beyond what a public tool or app check-in can provide.
Seek review if pain is worsening or severe, appears at rest or at night, follows trauma, involves swelling or neurological symptoms, affects daily activities, makes walking uncomfortable, or keeps worsening across repeated runs. Also seek review for suspected bone stress injury, complex post-surgical history, or when medical clearance is needed before returning.
FAQ
A Decision Report is a plain-language summary showing your recommended next step, why that decision was made, what risks matter, and when to seek review. It is based on the information you enter about your last run, symptoms, stiffness, fatigue, recent load, and recovery response.
A physiotherapist can review your recent Decision Reports, running history, symptom pattern, and current uncertainty to help make a clearer next-step recommendation. This can be useful when symptoms keep returning, confidence is low, or you want help choosing a lower-risk alternative alongside your current plan.
Screening first helps make sure physio review is appropriate for your situation. Some concerns may need in-person care, urgent review, or a different type of support. Payment details are only sent after the request is reviewed.
Eligible private health rebates may apply if the service is provided as a physiotherapy service, depending on your fund and level of cover. App access itself is not a physiotherapy consultation. Rungevity does not guarantee rebates.
Still unsure what to do after your run?
If your question is about a specific pain, flare-up, or return-to-running decision, the decision tool and physio review request are the best next steps.
Rungevity provides general running education and decision support based on self-reported symptoms and training response. It does not diagnose injuries, replace physiotherapy or medical care, or provide urgent medical advice.