UpandRunning Dubai Medical Center

14/04/2026

One of the most common things we hear from people in Dubai is: I have never really had a regular doctor here.

In a city where most people arrive as expats and navigate health as they go, it is surprisingly common to have no GP, no annual check-up, and no continuity of care from one year to the next.

Our DIFC clinic with Dr. Katherine Morris changes that. Full general practice, acute illness, chronic condition management, women's health, preventive care and annual health screening. For individuals and families.

Our Well Man and Well Woman annual health checks are available here too. A half-day appointment covering everything that matters full bloods, cardiac screening, hormonal health, body composition. Written report and physician call back within five working days.
If you have been managing without a regular GP this is the straightforward option.

WhatsApp for GP Appointment with Dr Katherine: https://zurl.co/vnc5q

09/04/2026

If your child plays sport in Dubai, the question is not if they will get injured. It is what happens when they do.

You do not need a GP referral to see our sports medicine team. You come straight to the specialist, the right clinician for the right injury, from the very first appointment.
We see young athletes every day at UPANDRUNNING. Football, swimming, gymnastics, rugby, netball, athletics, whatever your child plays, we understand the demands it puts on a growing body.

Clinical examination, ultrasound where it helps, and a management plan built around their sport, their age, and their return to play goals. All from one appointment.

If your child has picked up an injury — book directly with us today.

WhatsApp to book an appointment with a Sports Med Dr.: https://zurl.co/qft2Y

07/04/2026

Neck that aches by lunchtime. Shoulders that never quite relax. Lower back that starts hurting on the commute and does not stop until the weekend.

If any of that sounds familiar, your workstation could be part of the problem.

A clinical ergonomic assessment is not a poster about monitor height. It is a proper look at how you sit, how you move, what your existing pain patterns are and what is driving them. A physiotherapist assesses your setup in the context of your body, not a generic template.
The result is specific. This needs to move here. This person needs these two exercises because no amount of chair adjustment will fix the problem without addressing the stiffness in their thoracic spine.

We offer individual ergonomic assessments at our clinics and on-site for organizations. If you have been putting up with desk-related pain, it is worth getting properly assessed.

WhatsApp to book an Ergonomic assessment: https://zurl.co/bfkq7

04/04/2026

Up to 40% of active women experience bladder leakage during exercise. Running, jumping, lifting, sneezing, are we even mention skipping .

Most of them have never told anyone.

If this is you, you are not alone. And it is not something you just have to live with.

It is not an inevitable consequence of having children. It is not just what happens as you get older. It is a pelvic floor dysfunction, and in the majority of cases it responds extremely well to properly targeted physiotherapy.

The key word is properly targeted. Generic pelvic floor exercises are not always the answer and for some women can make things worse. A clinical assessment identifies what your pelvic floor is actually doing, and builds a program around that finding.

The most common thing women say after treatment: I wish I had done this years ago.

You do not have to train around this.

WhatsApp to book with our pelvic health physio https://zurl.co/YfGtI

01/04/2026

Plantar fasciitis that will not go away. An Achilles that flares up every time you increase training. A shoulder with calcific deposits your physio cannot shift.

If you have been living with a tendon or soft tissue problem that has not responded to conventional treatment, shockwave therapy may be the missing piece.

It works by delivering targeted acoustic waves to the affected tissue — stimulating cellular repair, reducing chronic pain and promoting new blood supply to areas that have become poorly perfused over time. The evidence is strongest for chronic tendon problems and calcific deposits.

The important thing to know: shockwave works best as part of a structured rehab program, not as a standalone fix. At UPANDRUNNING it is timed correctly within your loading plan — used to enhance the tissue's response to rehabilitation, not to replace it.

If you have tried everything and your tendon is still not responding — ask us whether shockwave has a role.

WhatsApp to Book: https://zurl.co/y49Qr

28/03/2026

If you are an active woman, chances are parts of your healthcare have felt like afterthoughts.
Sports medicine research was largely built on male athletes. Protocols applied to women were adaptations. The result shows up in ACL injury rates, in RED-S going undiagnosed, in the number of active women managing pelvic floor problems in silence because nobody ever told them they were fixable.

At UPANDRUNNING, women's health is built into the clinical model across every discipline. Our sports medicine team manages injury risk, hormonal health and performance through a medical lens. Our women's health physiotherapy team covers pelvic floor health at every life stage — postnatal, perimenopausal and everything between. Our family medicine service provides women's health consultations, cervical screening and our Well Woman annual check.

You should not have to piece this together across multiple providers. We have built it in one place.

WhatsApp to Book: https://zurl.co/y0AVe

27/03/2026

25/03/2026

Fifteen years ago, UPANDRUNNING opened its doors in Dubai with a simple idea: give athletes and active people in this city access to world-class sports medicine, physiotherapy and clinical care all under one roof, all working together.

That idea has not changed. It has just grown.

Today we have six locations across Dubai, a clinical team spanning sports medicine, physiotherapy, osteopathy, chiropractic, podiatry, sports nutrition and family medicine and fifteen years of the Dubai community trusting us with their health.

To every patient who has walked through our doors, thank you. You are why we are here.

WhatsApp to Book: https://zurl.co/cz6IW

23/03/2026

Your fitness watch gives you a VO2 max estimate. It is a useful number. But it is an estimate based on population averages, not your actual physiology.

A properly conducted cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET) measures exactly how your heart, lungs and metabolic system respond to increasing effort. It produces your real lactate threshold, your actual ventilatory thresholds, and genuine aerobic capacity data you can build a training program around.

For serious athletes, this changes the precision of everything. For anyone with unexplained breathlessness or fatigue during exercise, it identifies what resting tests miss entirely.
We run CPET testing at our Studio Republik location, overseen by Dr Zahra Alizadeh. Results feed directly into a training plan or clinical management plan depending on why you are testing.

Serious about your performance data?
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19/03/2026

Does this sound familiar? Tendon hurts. You rest it. Pain goes. You return to training. It comes back.

We see this cycle constantly at UPANDRUNNING sometimes patients have been through it with the same tendon four or five times before they come to us.

The frustrating truth is that rest removes pain but does not rebuild tendon capacity. Tendons recover through progressive, controlled loading, the right amount, at the right time, building gradually. That is what breaks the cycle.

At UPANDRUNNING, our sports medicine doctors scan the tendon and determine whether an injection is needed as a pain management bridge. Our physio team designs the loading program that produces lasting change. The two work together.

If your tendon keeps flaring up every time you build your training a proper assessment will find out why.

WhatsApp to Book: https://zurl.co/mvQLp

17/03/2026

Here is something we see regularly at UPANDRUNNING.

A runner comes in with Achilles pain they have been managing for two years. They have tried rest, physio, even a cortisone injection. It keeps coming back.

Within one assessment week, three things emerge: a biomechanical issue the podiatrist identifies in their foot strike, a loading error in their training plan the physio addresses, and a nutritional gap in tissue recovery the sports medicine blood panel picks up.

Treat one without the others and it keeps coming back. Treat all three together and it does not.

That is what an integrated clinical team actually means. Not different practitioners in the same building. One shared plan, one shared picture, built around you.

Fifteen years of this. Six locations across Dubai.

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13/03/2026

The most important thing sports science has confirmed in recent years…Strength training is the best injury prevention tool we have.

A major review published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine found it reduces sports injury risk by around a third and overuse injuries by nearly half. Not stretching. Not warm-up routines. Strength training.

Two other things the research has shifted recently:

Tendons recover with load, not rest. The right kind of progressive loading, timed correctly, is what actually rebuilds a tendon. Rest just removes the pain temporarily.
Movement variability is protective.

Athletes who move with slight natural variation across repetitions distribute load more evenly across their tissues. That reduces the cumulative stress that drives overuse injury over time.

Our physiotherapy team works exactly this way, building load capacity and movement quality, not just treating symptoms.

Book a physio appointment today. WhatsApp: https://zurl.co/9iOsw