Injury-Free Running, Second Edition
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Your Illustrated Guide to Biomechanics, Gait Analysis, and Injury Prevention
A no-nonsense guide for runners, trainers, and health professionals that shows how an understanding of anatomy combined with the latest in strengthening exercises can enhance injury-free running performance.
Each time a runner’s foot hits the ground, an impact force averaging three times their weight travels through the body at more than 200 miles per hour, causing the bones to vibrate and tendons to stretch. An average runner strikes the ground more than 10,000 times per hour, resulting in a remarkable amount of force to the body. But the truth is those impact forces need not be as harmful as they sound. In Injury-Free Running, Thomas C. Michaud explains how an understanding of anatomy and biomechanics, coupled with the latest strengthening exercises and rehab protocols, can keep runners injury free. By modifying our running form and engaging specific exercises to improve tendon resiliency, we can learn to store and return energy more efficiently while also running faster and with less effort.
In this revised second edition, the author shows how to:
Perform an at-home gait analysis to improve performance.
Identify problems with strength, flexibility, and/or neuromotor coordination. Incorporate new exercises that enhance energy storage and return it to the tendons.
Treat the 25 most common running-related injuries with the most scientifically justified treatment protocols.
Select the running shoe that best suits your needs.
With over 40 illustrations, this book is ideal for recreational runners, as well as physical therapists, trainers, chiropractors, and sports medicine practitioners. There are currently over 12 million runners in the United States alone. Nearly 50% of recreational runners and 90% of marathon runners are injured annually. This book is essential reading for both professional and recreational runners, their trainers, as well as health care professionals aiming to a maximizing running performance.
In addition to lecturing on clinical biomechanics internationally, author Michaud has served on the editorial review boards for Chiropractic Sports Medicine and the Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine. His previously published books are required reading in chiropractic and physical therapy colleges around the world.
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