Proximal Hamstrings tendinopathy - the runners hamstring injury I have written in the past on this blog about hamstrings tendinopathy, an injury common to sprinters and jumping athletes that manifests as pain in the lower part of the hamstring tendon near the knee. We talked here about the use of eccentric...
The back of my ankle hurts! (For the soccer and ballet buffs out there...) If you are a dancer or a soccer player or to a lesser extent a jumping athlete (think volleyball etc.) then you may have run into a problem characterised by point tenderness at the back and inside of the heel that exacerbates when you...
If you participate in a sport or physical activity that requires regular sprinting, like soccer, rugby, football or, of course, sprinting (!) you, or someone you know has experienced a hamstrings strain. A strain is a muscle or tendon tear. Tears sound scary, but remember that like all injuries strains present...
I have flat feet! Or do I? Through my childhood my mother insisted that my father had the flattest feet going and that I was born with the same structural dysfunction. Apparently I was doomed to walk forever by slapping the earth with the full brunt of the flippers on the ends of my legs. This was part of my...
Flexibility: Strength training vs. stretching Let’s talk about flexibility for a bit. Flexibility is a topic around which there are a great many myths and uncertainties. Perhaps the most famous of which is that stretching before an athletic event helps to prevent injury during that event. This myth has long been...