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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, […]
Recently while watching the Run856 chatter on Facebook we saw a great deal of back and forth about just about everyone being slightly off when looking at their watch time and distance versus their race chip time and the known and verified race distance. One of the Run856 users shared this explanation from the USATF: […]
LINK: https://runsignup.com/Race/NJ/AtlanticCity/StPatsBoardwalk10miler5krun Place: Chickie’s and Pete’s at the Tropicana 2831 Boardwalk, Atlantic City, NJ 08401 Atlantic City, NJ US 08401 Description: 39TH ANNUAL ST. PAT’S BOARDWALK 10 MILER AND 5K SATURDAY, MARCH 18, 2017 @ 10:00 AM (EDT) 5k & 10 MILER course 2017 is going to change because we have a new location. Pricing […]
LINK: https://runsignup.com/Race/NJ/Sewell/TheLuckyRun2017 Place: The Village Pub 139 Egg Harbor Road Sewell, NJ US 08080 Description: Get Lucky at The Lucky Run and After Party at The Village Pub in Sewell. Features Include: Chip Timed 5K Race with Instant Results Awards for Overall Winners and Age Group Winners Post Run Party Includes 1 Guinness Beer (or […]
Watch out! Dr. Tim Legath just dropped this article on my lap from BYU (Brigham Young University) which is entitled “Running actually lowers inflammation in knee joints – Running may also slow the process that leads to osteoarthritis”. From the article on Science Daily: Summary: We all know that running causes a bit of inflammation […]
Our good friends at STOP Sports Injuries produce a monthly newsletter with some really solid information almost always based around common sports injuries! http://www.stopsportsinjuries.org/ New Treatment for ACL Repair? By Kayleigh Sullivan, BS, and Brett D. Owens, MD http://aossm.informz.net/admin31/content/template.asp?sid=52347&ptid=1514&brandid=4196&uid=1058329468&mi=6162649&ps=52347 Stress Fractures in Basketball by Grant Jones, MD http://aossm.informz.net/admin31/content/template.asp?sid=52348&ptid=1514&brandid=4196&uid=1058329468&mi=6162649&ps=52348 Keep Rowing Injuries at Bay by Jonathan F. […]
Well would you look at that! Times are a changing in the old medical world and this time we are getting it right. We feel pretty strongly here at the office that often times, bones are not thought of as living objects and that most people feel that bones are just hard, solid pieces of […]
Our good friend, Jon Herting, DPT, CSCS, was recently published on Philly.com discussing a fantastic article about abdominal bracing, the article can be found at: http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/sportsdoc/Could-how-you-breathe-be-causing-you-back-pain.html#disqus_thread As the article states, currently in physical therapy, sports performance, and chiropractic, “breathing” is a real buzz word right now that we are only starting to crest the ability […]
If you missed The Running Summit held earlier this month in Cherry Hill, NJ at STACK Velocity Sports, you better read up about what all you missed! The event has finally gotten big enough that The Training Room of Cherry Hill, NJ had to let the event spill over into other areas of the VSP […]