Bio-Mechanics Can Solve Many Running Injuries

Running seems like a safe sport, so many people areopposite direction. This causes the kneecap to rub
surprised to learn that it causes frequent injuries toagainst the long bone of the upper leg. Special inserts
muscles, tendons, bones and joints. During running,can be placed in running shoes that limit rolling in of
your foot strikes the ground with a force equal tothe foot and prevent kneecap pain.Bio-mechanics can
three times body weight, a force more than doubleexplain injuries in other sports as well. Low back pain
that of walking. Many common running injuries havein bicycle riders is often treated just by raising the
bio-mechanical causes. For example, pain in the sidehandlebars. Bending over excessively places
of the right knee is often treated just by getting theexcessive stress on the lower back muscles. Raising
runner to stop running on the roads. To facilitatethe handlebar stem can decrease the forces on the
drainage, roads slope a few degrees from the middlelower back and cure the pain. If something hurts
to the sides. Running on the side of a road, facingwhen you exercise, ask yourself what you can do
traffic, causes the right leg to be higher than the leftbio-mechanically to eliminate the excessive stress on
and a larger proportion of the force of the footthat part of your body.Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a
strike to be transmitted up to the lateral part of theradio talk show host for 25 years and practicing
knee of the higher leg.Pain behind the kneecap isphysician for more than 40 years; he is board
often treated with special inserts in shoes. When youcertified in four specialties, including sports medicine.
run, you land on the outside bottom part of yourRead or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health
foot and roll toward the inside. This causes the lowerreports at weekly newsletter on fitness, health, and
leg to twist inward at the same time that thenutrition.
kneecap is pulled by the quadriceps muscle in the