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If there’s one thing I know about the human body, it’s knees. Not that I’m an expert in knees but I have read a lot about, had a few surgeries for, and even replaced a knee . So when this article from the New York Times was brought to my attention, my ears and fingersRead More
I thought that headline would get you. The story behind it, though, is quite encouraging. A Finish study followed several women with osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee for 16 months – a long term study by comparison to most in the exercise world. It had some of the postmenopausal women do thrice weekly one-hour sessionsRead More
March 2017 Post-Rehab Knees Have Persistent Problems, but…. After a major injury to a joint, in this case, a knee, such as an ACL tear, even after repair, some neuromuscular deficits persist. A group of therapists and researchers, including a former STEPS trainer, studied the potential causes of quadriceps deficits post-ACL repair and rehab. ItRead More
October 2016 Resistance Training and Breast Cancer-Related Lymphedema: Treatment or Waste of Time? Breast cancer is the most common cancer for American women and the second leading cause of cancer death. Despite great new techniques and echnologies for treating it, many women incur a side effect known as breast cancer-related lymphedema (BCRL). This is aRead More
A provocative article in the NY Times projects the possibility that genetics predisposes some – esp women – to NON-CONTACT anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears. http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/09/29/phys-ed-are-bad-knees-in-our-ge… Tim Hewett, of Cincinnati Children’s Hospital, a prominent researcher on ACL injury and prevention, reports that one set of twin girls tore their knees up within a year. TheirRead More
