Table of Contents Have you noticed how many people are given a boot to treat stress fractures? If you’ve had to wear one you’ll know they’re pretty uncomfortable (not to mention expensive!!!). Perhaps you didn’t have the fun experience of a boot but were put on a knee...
Not all tendons and tendon pain should be treated the same. For example, we tend to consider Achilles tendon pain as wither insertional or mid-substance. When it is insertional we need to consider compression of the tendon against bone that occurs for example when you...
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...
Do you have pinchy hip? Table of Contents Pinchy hip or groin pain is a relatively common issue. Running, squatting, getting down on the floor to play with your kids, can all trigger groin pain. Say you’re a recreational athlete – maybe a runner, Crossfitter,...
The Best Exercise for Hip Abduction This final article in our gluteus medius series looks at the best exercise to get it working and strong! Side hip abduction produces a high amount of electrical activity in the glut medius that is lifting the leg. To take it a step...
Best Exercises for Hip Abduction These next two blogs will be about two of the best exercises for gluteus medius. The first exercise we will introduce is simple (with a couple of caveats we discuss below), but research has shown it to be very effective. We can abduct...