What Is The Right Running Shoe For Me?! Modern advances (and claims) have not done much for injury risk! Runners assign a huge level of importance to footwear with respect to injury risk. In my opinion, this is more based on effective marketing than it is based...
Plantar Fascia and bone spurs – A pointy issue, but no sting! We have previously considered risk factors and treatment of plantar fasciitis (PF for short, though we should really call it fasciopathy). Over the years I have talked to many people (patients, and...
Plantar Fasciitis – Part 2 – Treatment and recovery! Part 1 of two-part blog on plantar fasciitis (PF) covered risk factors and prevention. This blog will consider the various ways we can treat it, including a newly researched exercise that has...
Plantar Fasciitis – Part 1 – Causes and prevention strategies These two words strike fear into people either because they have suffered with it, or they have seen friends suffering from it. As well-known a term as plantar fasciitis (PF) is, particularly in...
How much pain is too much when I exercise? Last post we discussed the evidence on Kinesiotape and saw that it is not currently an evidence-based treatment versus regular athletic tape. It led to a couple of questions that we will discuss in this post: Should I still...