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...
Sam’s Story: How to Know When is Safe to Return to Sport After ACL Reconstruction! ACL Injury and Reinjury – A Concern for the Parent of an Athlete Imagine for a moment that you are the mother of a talented high-school basketball player. He’s currently a...
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...
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...
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...