On a 6-month sabbatical in beautiful New Zealand (2017) with Professor Grant Schofield, I set out to perform a review of studies aimed at identifying the most common running injuries. Around the same time, I observed kiwi boys running barefoot on a tartan track. We designed a study to better understand the barefoot activity ofContinue reading “The Urban Runner with an Evolutionary Legacy”
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How to Recover from the Runners Achilles Heel?
Pain is the major source of confusion and patience is the major source of resolution for the achilles heel. Pain and Function Recent literature demonstrates the relationship between pain and function or tissue health is not straightforward. The problem is that intuitively we feel like it is. This is an evolutionary defense mechanism. If youContinue reading “How to Recover from the Runners Achilles Heel?”
Peter Francis 