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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. Background Runners, particularly faster runners, will often present with high hamstring tendon pain. The pain is typically felt where the muscles [...]
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 [...]
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Dr. Lehman,
I just recently came across your website and have come to question all that I thought i knew about running biomechanics. I was wondering if could recommend any text books / journal articles that are an absolute must have in understand the biomechanics of running. I have attended many presentations / labs given by Dr. Ferber and find his work very insightful as well. Do you offer lectures / labs outside your clinic? Thank you Dr. Lehman and hope to hear from you soon!
Hi Samuel,
Dr Ferber knows more than I do. I would read everything he has published and then read Dr. Irene Davis’ body of work. Dr. Ferber has worked with Dr Davis and they have both created a great deal of great research. I would also recommend reading Dr. Chris Powers. All of these researchers can be found by searching their names on Pubmed. A good introduction to running biomechanics is from Jay Dicharry who recently published a review in Clinics in Sports Medicine. Jay Dicharry’s team have also produced a lot of good work. This is just a taste of the good work that is out there. I find that these researcher’s writings are the most “approachable”.
Good luck,
Greg
Hi Dr. Lehman,
I’m writing in response to a comment you left in my post My take on CBC’s “Running Shoe Controversy” on March 21. I’m sorry I didn’t get back to you before. So it happens that the blog you left your comment on is a site I no longer use and is scheduled for archiving - the new and improved Barefoot Canada is now available at the link above.
Thanks for taking the time to read my blog posting. I’m very much interested in the opinion of professionals like yourself who are taking the time to analyze the impact on our bodies of traditional footwear vs bare feet.
I’d be interested in further discussing this (and anything else regarding barefooting) with you in order to gather some more material for future postings. Please contact me directly so we can set something up.
Looking forward to hearing back from you,
Barefoot Moe