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In the course of writing my previous article on tibial stress fractures, I did a lot of thinking and reading about the role of impact and leg stiffness in the genesis of injury. There’s a lot of back-and-forth on the subject, with few clear answers from the wealth of research that’s been done. Before we … Read more
Tibial stress fractures are related to medial tibial stress syndrome, which you can read about hereFor an in-depth discussion of return-to-running programs after a stress fracture or stress reaction, see this article This installment of the Injury Series deals with tibial stress fractures, one of the most serious of the common running injuries. A stress … Read more
Two very different footstrikes captured on high-speed video This post is a bit behind the times, but I thought I’d get it out there regardless. This post is a short analysis which takes a look at the latest research from Daniel Lieberman’s lab at Harvard University. Lieberman is, of course, famous for his paper on … Read more
The New York Times has a nasty habit of writing poorly-researched exercise science articles. They go something like this: A new study by professor so-and-so at such-and-such university upends some widely-accepted fact about exercise, and we’re darn luck to have these scientists (and the clever journalist) telling us that common sense is wrong. You have … Read more