Using Rungevity responsibly

What Rungevity can and cannot help with

Rungevity can help structure your thinking when you are unsure how your body responded to running. It does not diagnose injuries, replace physiotherapy or medical care, or provide urgent medical advice.

If something feels urgent, severe, unusual, or serious, do not use Rungevity to decide what to do. Seek professional or urgent medical care.

What Rungevity is for

Rungevity is designed for runners who are rebuilding, returning from injury or time away, or managing uncertain symptoms during running progression.

Runners rebuilding after pain, injury, or time away.
Runners managing uncertain symptoms during running progression.
Runners trying to understand how pain, stiffness, fatigue, and recent load changes affect the next step.
Runners who want clearer information to discuss with a physiotherapist, doctor, coach, or other health professional.

What Rungevity is not for

Diagnosis, treatment, urgent care, or emergency symptoms.
Severe or rapidly worsening symptoms.
Complex medical cases or complex post-surgical cases without clearance.
Suspected bone stress injury.
Neurological symptoms such as numbness, pins and needles, weakness, or altered sensation.
Replacing physiotherapy, medical advice, coaching, or professional judgement.
Guaranteeing risk-free progression or pain-free running.

How Rungevity makes suggestions

Rungevity uses information you enter to help interpret running response. That can include:

Pain during running.
Pain after running.
Next-morning stiffness or soreness.
How long stiffness lasts.
Recent running changes or load increases.
Fatigue, stress, and recovery response.
Seek-review responses, such as worsening symptoms, limping, swelling, or daily-life impact.

Why accurate information matters

Rungevity's suggestions can only be as useful as the information entered. If information is incomplete, inaccurate, or does not reflect your real symptoms, the suggestion may be incomplete or inaccurate.

Decision labels

These are decision-support suggestions, not medical instructions.

Progress

A modest increase may be reasonable when your response looks settled.

Progress + caution

Progress may be reasonable, but one or more signals should be monitored closely.

Repeat + monitor

Keeping the same run may be the clearer next step while you watch the response.

Reduce + monitor

The next run may need to be easier, shorter, slower, or more controlled.

Rest

A short break from running may be sensible while symptoms settle.

Seek review

A closer professional review may be appropriate before deciding the next running step.

When to seek review

Seek professional review or urgent care when symptoms are concerning or outside a simple running decision. Examples include:

Severe or worsening pain.
Night pain or pain at rest.
Pain with normal walking or inability to walk comfortably.
Swelling or visible change.
Recent trauma.
Suspected bone stress injury.
Neurological symptoms such as numbness, pins and needles, weakness, or altered sensation.
Symptoms that worsen across repeated runs.
Complex post-surgical history.
Symptoms that are concerning, unusual, persistent, or hard to understand.
Lack of medical or physiotherapy clearance where clearance is needed.

Use Rungevity alongside other support

Rungevity can be used alongside your physiotherapist, doctor, coach, running plan, Runna, Strava, Garmin, or spreadsheet. It does not replace those supports. It helps structure information about how your body responded.

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