by SportsLab | Aug 28, 2019 | Multidisciplinary, Podiatry, Uncategorized
Photo Credit: Michael Dawson There is much debate, especially on social media, about the “pronation paradigm” of fitting running shoes and many “running geeks” have strong opinions on either side of this debate. All you need to do is google the term pronation to be...
by SportsLab | Jul 9, 2019 | Massage Therapy, Multidisciplinary, Physiotherapy, Podiatry
Photo Credit: Michael Dawson “An emotion is a strong instinctive or intuitive feeling distinguished from reasoning or knowledge of one’s circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.” (This is a visual representation of the distribution of the 27 emotional...
by SportsLab | Jun 24, 2019 | Multidisciplinary, Physiotherapy, Podiatry
Photo Credit: Michael Dawson “You’re a physio, don’t you know that running is bad for your knees?”. Whilst we see plenty of knee injuries from clients that run, running isn’t inherently bad for your knees. The most common myth we hear around runners and knee pain is...
by SportsLab | Apr 26, 2019 | Multidisciplinary, Podiatry, Uncategorized
Photo credit: Michael Dawson At the London 2017 World Track and Field Championships researchers rigged up 49 high speed cameras to capture the biomechanics of the worlds best across the disciplines. During the marathon races cameras captured runners stride, striking...
by SportsLab | Apr 11, 2019 | Massage Therapy, Multidisciplinary, Podiatry, Uncategorized
Running and training in Kenya couldn’t be any more different to what it’s like training here back in Auckland. Kenyans train on dirt roads, I very rarely do. In Auckland, the norm is to run on the roads and pavement. The...
