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  • More Conventional Wisdoms Bite the Dust (Part I)

    As a physical therapy student some 20 years ago, my professors often referred to me by my first name...

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  • Take a Break

    A few years ago this column looked at the topic (Article #33), relative to the healing of and recovery...

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  • Self-inflicted Wounds

    The task of determining the cause of a runner’s injury is sometimes difficult, while other times quite simple. The...

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  • Above All– Relax!

    I had a wonderful coach my freshman cross-country season in college. He had a certain flare for melodrama when...

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  • Stimulating Thoughts

    ITEM: The FDA has announced it is examining claims made by manufacturers and sellers of electrical muscle stimulators to...

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  • Cross Training

      Orange, Ca. – As I sit here in sunny, warm la la land, far removed from the colder...

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  • Grains of Salt

    Everyone has pet peeves. One of mine involves the current relationship between the media and medicine. It seems to...

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  • Plantar Fasciitis and Shoes – Revisited

    Early on in this series (Articles #6 and 13) the topics of running shoes and plantar fasciitis were explored...

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  • Windswept Hips

    For many years, most of the so-called experts on running injuries have held fast to the belief that –...

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  • Of Yogurt, Yoga, and Yoda

    Americans are a shopping people. Cars, stereos, clothes, videos, you name it, we’ll buy it. Or, as my mother...

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  • Say A Prayer

    It probably comes as no surprise to regular readers of this column that knee pain ranks at the top...

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  • Waddling on

    On two previous occasions (Articles #7 and 38 ) I have addressed the issue of running form and stride...

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  • Iatrogenic Injuries

    Almost everyone has heard of the Hippocratic Oath taken by physicians upon graduation from medical school. Most people are...

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  • Hamstrings Revisited

    As every Sweet and Sour Soup connoisseur knows, the Chinese zodiac assigns to each year the name of an...

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