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It seems ironic, but if you’re training for running—especially long distance—running isn’t enough. Strength training will make the difference between good and great on race day.
Runners tend to do one thing: run. It’s a notorious source of repetitive stress injury and you’re much more likely to get hurt if you don’t do strength training. The bonus, strength training will likely make you faster, too.
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Runners love to hate their IT bands. Trouble there can keep you off the road, the runner’s worst nightmare.
Short for iliotibial, the IT is a long band of connective tissue on the outside of each leg, running from hip to knee. When it gets inflamed, it usually causes pain on the outside of the knee. But it can also cause pain at the hip or lower back.
(more…)We know it’s early but we are charged up about keeping running alive and well in our region of South Jersey! All too often we hear running community members say if they would have only known about the Day Of Distance earlier they would have signed up! Well it’s on and the date is Friday, […]
I teach this exact exercise several times a day as well as a few variations almost on the daily since the basis of most of our patients are runners. This exercise can never be done slowly enough, anyone can do this movement quickly but slow down and act like you have a hot cup of […]
So back in 2015 it was all the rage and outrage among those of you in the soccer communities because US Soccer made a mandate to eliminate heading in ages 10 and under as prefaced by this older article on Today.com Link: http://www.today.com/parents/no-more-heading-us-soccer-out-new-guidelines-youth-soccer-t54971 From NPR: “Over a quarter of a billion people play soccer all […]
So a lot of our patients have issues with pain, tenderness and tightness in and around the Iliotibial Band, often times referred to as the ITBand. While in most cases there are various reasons why our patients present with pain in this particular tissue, treating it has been done various ways in the past, some […]
We see a lot of runners in our office, as in A LOT OF RUNNERS, and we very proud of that niche! We are the ones that occasionally have to tell them to stop running for a bit (which is always great fun… … …). This article resurfaces every so often and is very important […]