Maximize Recovery with Electrical Nerve Stimulation
“Let me know when you start to feel this.” I heard a muffled voice above me say, as I lay with my face in a padded cradle and my shorts ever so discretely tucked up […]
IT Band Recovery
Resolve Tight IT Band Pain for Good: What Causes it, exercises and stretches
8 miles in to my 16 mile run a slight burning around my knee turned in to a stabbing pain, that had me sitting on the sidewalk gulping back the tears. This was in the […]
How to Truly Resolve Runners Knee by Fixing Knee Drift
If it sounds to good to be true, we’re supposed to believe it’s total hogwash. Ok I usually do anyways! But I swear this time, I think I’ve found a process to help most us […]
Why I Stopped Foam Rolling My IT Band
IT Band Syndrome. Sounds like a geek squad that couldn’t quite get their act together, but really it’s the bane of many runners existence. In fact, I’ve written a whole 80 page e-Book on resolving […]
Pride and Injury: 12 Lessons in Injury Prevention
As with most lessons that are learned the hard way, this one stung. It was a wake up call to my invincibility and eventually required me to put my pride to the side if I […]
How to Prevent Knee Pain When Running or Cycling {Runner’s Knee Exercises}
Cycling is supposed to save your knees right?? People have been preaching that sermon to me since I started running: “you need to do something lower impact to save your knees”. Ahh if I had […]
You’re Injured. 7 Step Program for Mental Recovery
Is it possible to run without injury, absolutely. Do most of us do all the things that would require (daily PT, stretching, never pushing beyond our limits, avoiding misplaced man hole covers)? Well no…so when […]
Exercises to Correct Tight Hip Flexors: Undoing Effects of Sitting All Day
Stop me if you’ve heard this story before: athlete wakes up early to go for a run before work, doesn’t have time to stretch after, then proceeds to sit at his or her desk for […]
Understanding Cortisone Shots: When? Why? Limits?
If there ever were a magic bullet for recovering from an injury cortisone shots might be it. Of course like all magic, it requires distraction from what’s truly occurring for it to work. In other […]
IT Band Recovery Exercises That Work Long Term
If you’ve been around these parts for awhile, you’re probably aware that I’m obsessed with helping people run injury free. Obsessed.With.Long.Term.Pain.Free. But I’m especially fond of talking about IT Band Syndrome. Just reading it sends […]