3 Ways Walking is Weird
After about nine months of crawling, rolling, and being schlepped around, most of us begin to take our first steps. From there, an insatiable drive propels us to strut about with …
After about nine months of crawling, rolling, and being schlepped around, most of us begin to take our first steps. From there, an insatiable drive propels us to strut about with …
I recently read Veronique Greenwood’s article, The Problematic, Newfangled Hack That Is the Human Leg and I ardently disagree with her thesis: If you were to design a leg for a bipedal …
Every joint has a range of motion it’s structurally capable of producing. Let’s imagine that as a spectrum: Moving along that line from the left to the right means the joint is …
Running along the length of both your thigh bones is a section of tissue so universally reviled, so poorly understood and deeply mistrusted, you’d think it was a presidential candidate. If your …
Here’s a little trick I’ve been sharing with athletes looking to reduce injury and increase performance. Before you watch, make sure you know which is your dominant leg. It’s usually the …
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We’ve briefly covered wrists and how rolling the body of the fingers inward—what I call the “knuckle spiral“—helps to relieve discomfort on the wrist. We’ve touched on elbows, which absorb the …
Most of the force that allows our bodies to do all the super-cool stuff that our bodies do is stored in the transverse plane of motion. We coil. We uncoil. We move.
During my last webinar for the EBFA, someone asked me about how knees coil. For my response, read on!
Knees get a bad rap. Of the top seven most common sports injuries, three of them are knee-related. Even for non-athletes, creaking, popping and aching seem to be practically inevitable. I used …