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A provocative article in the New York Times back in December 2019 offers a layman’s perspective on pain that raises more questions than it answers. In brief, it posits the prevalent theory that the brain perceives some ‘sensation’ and then labels it ‘pain’ in some instances and some people but not in all. So let’sRead More
I love reading about sports medicine – from lay to professional literature I find this stuff amazingly interesting, because today’s news is tomorrow’s old news. When I was in graduate school, I did a project – and independent study – where I reviewed many articles on hips and knees and summarized each in abstract formRead More
I’ve reported before on whether or not you should buy a running shoe to fit your foot type. The most recent studies simply do not support this idea. For one thing, analyzing a foot type, or how it performs when you run, is not as easy as looking at the sole of your shoe. tooRead More
Another article sums up the latest professional spin on stretching. Done on runners, many many runners, of all ages, some of whom were assigned a 5 mins stretching routine, others who were asked not to – it took two years to find enough who would not stretch – the study found that 16% of stretchersRead More
