normalizing it all
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Cognitive decline with aging is an increasingly important research topic. This week Science Magazine has produced a special issue on the brain and a summary article and one main articles discusses the impact on a specific neurodegenerative disease (spinocerebellar ataxia type 1) in mice.
A “mild” exercise regimen helped the mice live significantly longer. The [...]
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Five inches of Snow have just fallen in Dallas. Without snow plows or salt and sand trucks the plan is to wait it out and pray for a warm day. We all need to have a plan to deal with weather extremes. And waiting it out just might not be your plan.
The impact of [...]
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All marathons are special. You’ll remember your first marathon and your last one for a long, long time. And you may have favorites of the ones in the middle. But, what’s the story on the first marathon ever run. The 2,500 year Anniversary run is coming up on October 31, the same day as the [...]
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Podiatry Management (October, 2010) has just published an article I’ve written titled Overuse Injuries: All The Small Things . You are just another click away from the PDF version. This is a challenging article. It introduces mechanotransduction, a theory of cellular and tissue function, which is little known in the sports medicine community. The article [...]
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Blisters are a common sports injury caused by a combination of friction and moisture. Blisters normally
cause pain that limits your activity and resolve and go away. You should take good care of blisters to avoid infection. Running in pain with an altered gait can cause you to injure another body part. A couple of days [...]
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Two Steps Forward One Step Back: Marching To Marathon Success
The 10% rule of limiting weekly increases in mileage to no more than ten percent is widely quoted as the sin qua non of incremental training. In many cases even this may be too much. An invariably rising load of 10 percent each week may not [...]
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Back To Basics: The Three Pillars of Fitness: The concept of fitness is sometimes confusing and we may even revise this relatively simple conceptu...
What's next after the penguin?: There is much variety among the blogs at Runner's World. But not long ago the Penguin flew off and w...
Barefoot Ted & Shrinking Your Shoes: Nick Heil has a short and fun article up at Outside Magazine. He is testing out his Vibram FiveFing...
