There are articles popping up everywhere lately about how walking is the “new black”. It’ll help you live longer and look younger. No, not really but it can seem that way. I’m thinking of this recent one about a study linking less knee pain with …
Biomechanics of Pain
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Stretching “Wrong” (5 of 5)
If you’re like most of my patients, you don’t stretch before or after your exercise-walks or hikes …and for some reason you feel guilty about it when asked. There are a lot of mixed ideas about stretching and I’m not saying you should …
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Stretching “Wrong” (5 of 5)
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Fashion Runway Model (4 of 5)
via GIPHY You wouldn’t be alone if, when you walk, you have in your mind some version of a fashion catwalk. You may not look like a model when you’re walking, but the notion of the way models walk might actually subconsciously inform how you …
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Fashion Runway Model (4 of 5)
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Bones as Meat Hangers (3 of 5)
Do you think of your body as a skeleton with flesh draped on top of it? If so, maybe you can relate to feeling that your bones are like a scaffolding holding everything else up as you move through space. It’s true. If it weren’t for our …
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Bones as Meat Hangers (3 of 5)
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Limb Flinging (2 of 5)
Are you a Limb Flinger? When we walk, a portion of our time is spent on one leg while we bring the other leg forward through the air, right? This act of balancing on the one leg, without falling over for that split second, is a highly complex …
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Limb Flinging (2 of 5)
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Hooves for Feet (1 of 5)
In last week’s post (5 Mistakes People Make When Walking) — a somewhat self indulgent story to set the stage for these next 5 posts — I mentioned that I had an additional reason for being exceptionally aware of how I use my feet. I’ve had bunions …
5 Mistakes People Make When Walking – Hooves for Feet (1 of 5)
