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Five Things to Make Running Easier (Part II)

By John Ball, DC On March 1, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In General, Nutrition

As promised, here’s part two of last weeks entry: Five Things to Make Running Easier (Part I)

3. Respect Cumulative Loads

Translation: Don’t be afraid to take a day off.

Load versus capacity.

That’s the only equation that matters in respect to who gets injured, when they get injured, and just how bad the injury [...]

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Load and Capacity 101

By John Ball, DC On February 6, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In General

I like to tell people that I do my best to make myself obsolete. I’ve given many patients the “secret” to never needing me again.

I’ll share it with you again.

Free of charge, completely altruistically, of course.

Here it comes:
Load vs. Capacity.

Sadly, I just heard a bad television show “big unveil [...]

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More Achilles Problems

By John Ball, DC On January 27, 2010 · Leave a Comment · In General

Yesterday I promised more on the Achilles tendon thread I wrote: so here it goes.

The patient case I’m referring to was suffering from “recurrent” bouts of Achilles tendonitis. Treatment consisted of ASTYM, a popular instrument assisted soft-tissue technique very similar to those that I do. He also had been treated with manual therapy to [...]

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