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Audience: Patients Rationale: This post is series of information regarding the explanation of persistent pain. Disclaimer: This is an evolving field and is certainly controversial and debatable.  Please discuss with me any questions you might have.   Video 1: Graphic description video of persistent pain explained.  

Audience: Runners and Therapists Purpose: A quick guide to running injury prevention.  This article is a lead in to an almost complete e-book that runners can use to keep healthy and improve performance. Preamble Injury prevention for runners is not rock-solidly founded in science… and may not even be possible.  [...]

Audience: Patients Purpose: Below are a number of exercise videos for patients for rehabilitation. Disclaimer: Please you under the guidance of a professional.  For the most part, there are no good or bad exercises.  Just ill timed, inappropriate or poorly executed. With any leg training you always want to train [...]

Audience: Therapists and Patients Purpose: This post is video overview of the typical exercise progression I advocate for patients (primarily runners) who present with persistent longstanding high hamstring pain.

Audience: Therapists Purpose: Ys, Ts and Ws are common exercises for shoulder rehabilitation.  A recent post by Mike Reinold has raised some concerns about performing these exercises bilaterally (click here).  Mike suggests performing the exercises unilaterally as bilateral performance may lead to some unwanted form errors and may not be [...]

Audience: Patients Why: Common and safe exercises for the lower back.  While many exercises are advocated the majority of these are chosen because they train the trunk (i.e. core) musculature without imparting excessive stress on the spine The Key: A commonality across these exercises is that the spine stays in [...]

Audience: For Patients Purpose: Pictures of common shoulder exercises Why: “Tendinitis”, Tendinopathy, rotator cuff strains/tears, bursitis and shoulder instability (i.e. you dislocated/subluxated) can all be accompanied by impingement (e.g. when you move your arm the top of your arm bone pinches on your shoulder blade - click here for more [...]

Audience: Therapists and Runners Purpose: quick review of a research abstract of a paper investigating the influence of running in the Nike Free on foot muscle strength and size.   A research abstract (not a full paper) was published at the American Society for Biomechanics conference in 2010 by Dr. [...]

Audience: Runners and Therapists Background: Changing running form, particularly through the aid of minimalist or barefoot running, is often proposed to change the type of forces that the body experiences during running.  This in turn may influence of risk for injuries. Source of information: Zadpoor et al (2011), Lieberman et [...]

Audience: Therapists and patients with too much time on their hands Purpose:  Provide a mild critique of the utility of the prone hip extension test   Background The prone hip extension test (or prone leg extension - PLE) is a very common clinical test in use for more than 20 [...]

Hi Mark, That exercise is a great first step to the side bridge from your feet. And yes, you should ...

Hi Greg Interesting read. I'm having some ITB-type running problems and physio of course suggested side-lying abduction, which I feel just ...

Hi Dr. Lehman, I'm writing in response to a comment you left in my post My take on CBC's "Running Shoe ...

Thats my point yes. I think that the impact forces could be different. I don't really get the kinematic reporting ...

Hi Kasper, The software is called Poser 8. You can buy this by Smith Micro. They also have Poser ...

Dear Greg Lehman, Very nice website! As a researcher I came acros your patient exercise sheats. I am currently doing research ...

So do you think the Kenyan kids might have different impact/collision forces than the "self trained" american barefoot runners? ...

Look at the "plantar foot" angle, there's a difference of more than 7 degrees between the barefoot Americans and the ...

Good points. The habitually barefoot plantar flexed around 17.6 degrees which was similar to the Kenyan youths ...

Great article! Found this site today and will be back to read more as soon as i get the time. ...