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Category: Injury Prevention, Recovery, Healing, and Performance Enhancement

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  Egoscue Method and Fixing My Right Leg Overuse

  My right leg is stronger than my left. So for 4 decades, my body has adjusted to this fact and it has left me unbalanced. Unbalanced so much so that I’ve noticed during races that I tend to (annoyingly) cramp my right leg on biking and running. I asked my PT guy at Team Clinic…

  December 29, 2005

  Injury Prevention, Recovery, Healing, and Performance Enhancement

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  Off Season Aches and Pains

  I’m heavy into the off season now, and not doing much training at all. It’s a great time for recovery, for recharging my body and brain from all the stress I’ve put on it over the past year. But one thing has been confounding me. Why is it when I am doing practically nothing, that…

  December 15, 2005

  Injury Prevention, Recovery, Healing, and Performance Enhancement, Off Season

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  Where there is Pain, There is Gain…

  These last few weeks I’ve asked my PT folks at Team Clinic to apply their Active Release Techniques (ART) to improving my performance. Basically, years of adhesions and scar tissues, as well as shortening of muscles and muscle structures, have led to restrictions in movement, which then lead to compensations in muscles which get overworked…

  September 17, 2005

  Injury Prevention, Recovery, Healing, and Performance Enhancement

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  ART and Feeling like Humpty Dumpty

  ART stands for Active Release Techniques. It has been my savior over the last few months leading up to the NYC Marathon and Ironman NZ. It is a unique massage technique which breaks down scar tissue, inducing recovery and healing, and also prevention/curing of scar tissue which is from muscle fibers breaking down and laying…

  February 24, 2005

  Injury Prevention, Recovery, Healing, and Performance Enhancement