A patient of mine recently got a stress fracture after doing the Goofy marathon challenge. The Goofy is only trumped by the Dopey which includes a 5K and 10 K run before the Goofy 1/2 and full marathon over 4 days! As Clint Eastwood famously said in Dirty Harry, a man has got to know […]
Month: February 2016
Stretching Revisited
Recently, a New York Times article summarized some research by the University of Nevada that concluded that static stretching for 30 seconds decreased muscular power of the hamstring and quadricep muscles of those that stretched before activity versus those that did not.1 The decrease was about 3%, minimal but not insignificant, particularly when fractions of […]