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Ask yourself this..can a shoe, and just a shoe, make you run faster?
One newcomer to the overcrowded running shoe market, Airia One claims exactly this.. that by just wearing their product, you WILL run faster.
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Now this is a premise a crusty old cynic like me just can't avoid, and so today, we take a look at this shoe, and this concept, and investigate if indeed, this shoe will drop your PB.. and.. why!!
Read article...Will walking make you smarter?
When a 70-year-old man walked the length of the United States in 1909, he sparked a conversation that ultimately changed medicine's ideas about the value of exercise in old age.
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I have long held that walking as an activity and exercise is tragically undervalued. It is low stress, low cost and very high return, and a recent article by Wayne Curtis in The Atlantic piqued my interest.
Read article...A ripper question of the day!!
Long time Founding Member Mark posed the following very topical question.."Simon, any updates on treating insertional achilles tendinopathy?
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I've had some patients get great benefit from eccentric heel drops to the floor. Others have not had benefit & find traditional gastroc/soleus stretching helpful even though in both cases the pain is very localised to the achilles insertion. Both cases seem to be helped by simple dorsiflexion of the foot with rubber tubing before getting out of bed. Any thoughts?"
Read article...Running 'form'.. what the HELL IS it?? ? Or.. can Doris get her mojo back?
I saw my friend recently as a patient in my clinic. She is training for the New York City Marathon in just a few weeks time. In the lead up to the big day, she has been plagued by shin pain.
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And, despite visiting any number of 'specialists", her pain remains.. and it got me thinking, just how much of this was down to her "form"?
Read article...research update 13.10.14
1. Gait Patterns in Children With Limb Length Discrepancy 2. Altered dynamic foot kinematics in people with medial knee osteoarthritis during walking: A cross-sectional study 3. Effects of foot orthoses on Achilles tendon load in recreational runners 4. Orthoses posted in both the forefoot and rearfoot reduce moments and angular impulses on lower extremity joints during walking 5. Sex differences in trunk, pelvis, hip and knee kinematics and eccentric hip torque in adolescents. 6. Multi-segment foot kinematics and ground reaction forces during gait of individuals with plantar fasciitis. 7. Running with a minimalist shoe increases plantar pressure in the forefoot region of healthy female runners. 8. A closer look at overuse injuries in the pediatric athlete.
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Gait Patterns in Children With Limb Length Discrepancy, Aoina et al, J Pediatr Orthop 2014 Article in Press
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