Do Your Knees Hurt? Do your knees hurt? If they do, the odds are that you have anterior knee pain (AKP). AKP goes by many different names, including patellofemoral pain syndrome, chondromalacia patella, and runner’s knee. Recently a group of experts met and...
How to Safely Recover from Hamstring Injury Hamstring injuries are a common injury in sports that involve sprinting and rapid changes in speed1. Once you’ve suffered a hamstring injury, what do you need to do to get back up to full speed, and how long should you...
PSA – Can common medications affect your tendons?! Recently, I saw a runner in my practice who had an MRI-confirmed muscle/tendon tear. Although this isn’t an uncommon injury for me to see, the likely cause of this runner’s injury really shouldn’t be common; but...
Major Medical Journal Strongly recommends against knee scope for degenerative knees Most of us know someone who has had their knee scoped (also called arthroscopy) to “clean up” arthritis or a meniscal tear. Often, patients are told that the scope will...
Running is not bad for arthritis! In a previous blog we talked about aging and running, and how the traditional, age-old advice on osteoarthritis (OA) and running may not be accurate. Previously, runners were often told that running was bad for their joints, and they...
Susi’s Story – From Pain to Boston This is the story of Susi, a talented local young runner who came to me for help with knee pain that had been preventing her from completing a marathon since 2009. Over the course of 6 months, I saw Susi for a running...
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