| Running seems like a safe sport, so many people are | | | | opposite direction. This causes the kneecap to rub |
| surprised to learn that it causes frequent injuries to | | | | against 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 to | | | | the foot and prevent kneecap pain.Bio-mechanics can |
| three times body weight, a force more than double | | | | explain injuries in other sports as well. Low back pain |
| that of walking. Many common running injuries have | | | | in bicycle riders is often treated just by raising the |
| bio-mechanical causes. For example, pain in the side | | | | handlebars. Bending over excessively places |
| of the right knee is often treated just by getting the | | | | excessive stress on the lower back muscles. Raising |
| runner to stop running on the roads. To facilitate | | | | the handlebar stem can decrease the forces on the |
| drainage, roads slope a few degrees from the middle | | | | lower back and cure the pain. If something hurts |
| to the sides. Running on the side of a road, facing | | | | when you exercise, ask yourself what you can do |
| traffic, causes the right leg to be higher than the left | | | | bio-mechanically to eliminate the excessive stress on |
| and a larger proportion of the force of the foot | | | | that part of your body.Dr. Gabe Mirkin has been a |
| strike to be transmitted up to the lateral part of the | | | | radio talk show host for 25 years and practicing |
| knee of the higher leg.Pain behind the kneecap is | | | | physician for more than 40 years; he is board |
| often treated with special inserts in shoes. When you | | | | certified in four specialties, including sports medicine. |
| run, you land on the outside bottom part of your | | | | Read or listen to hundreds of his fitness and health |
| foot and roll toward the inside. This causes the lower | | | | reports at weekly newsletter on fitness, health, and |
| leg to twist inward at the same time that the | | | | nutrition. |
| kneecap is pulled by the quadriceps muscle in the | | | | |