For those of you who run – and suffer from running injuries (which I presume is most of you) - this book may be of interest to you.… Continue Reading
Tag Archives: injuries
Ankle sprains… caught in the act!
Learning how injuries happen can help us prevent and treat them. Unfortunately, you can’t just do a study asking people to hurt themselves on purpose… those pesky ethical committees would never approve of your brilliant study. Then how are we supposed to collect such data? Accidentally of course! Researchers in Germany were doing a study with… Continue Reading
How Pain Works, Part II – Acute vs. Chronic
As you learn more about how pain works, you’ll notice a distinction is made between ‘acute’ and ‘chronic’ pain. What does this mean? Is it just a matter of time? Or is there something different happening when pain persists? It turns out to be a bit more complicated than once thought… let’s discuss!… Continue Reading
Outdated Pain Theories, Part I – Damage and Degeneration
Back in the early 1600′s, a famous philosopher and mathematician named René Descartes came up with a theory to explain pain. This theory can be summed up by the painting to the right (created by Descartes himself): a disturbance is passed along a nerve fiber until it reaches the brain. When the brain becomes conscious… Continue Reading