Tenocyte in its connective tissue web In another article, I discussed one of the reasons given for athletic decline in older people: your maximal heart rate goes down....
Another reason your running slows down as you age
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Health Articles by Dr. Lavine
Why older runners can’t run as fast
There are plenty of ways you can improve your fitness at any age. Someone who’s sixty can train to run faster or farther when she (or he) turns seventy. There’s no age limit to...
Your toxic lawn
Which lawn looks better to you? The lawn on the left is almost entirely grass and it's a uniform shade of green. Many would prefer it to the lawn on the right, which has plants...
Guest article: Fear dreads resilience
For today's guest article, I thank Cameron Stout, who writes Light At Sea - Self Care in the time of corona and beyond FEAR DREADS RESILIENCE Posted on June 15, 2020 So, first of...
Do this every day to keep your brain sharp
Write the alphabet with your non-dominant hand. This forces the brain to forge new learning pathways and new connections between the brain and body.
Running efficiency at any speed
When I was training for the half-marathon, I wasn't too concerned about my speed. I just wanted to finish. And not finish dead last. As I piled up the miles, though, I noticed...
Palpation is more accurate than I thought
I use palpation as one of my primary diagnostic tools. My years of experience give me confidence that I’m picking up relevant signals from a patient’s bodily tissues. But I...
Does this supplement solve the exercise paradox?
Even though exercise is one of the best ways to improve your ability to deal with stress, exercise itself is stressful. Or at least it should be. That's the paradox. There are...
I’m running a half marathon. Chapter 6: I nearly passed out
I must have looked wasted. My wife was quite worried. She was ready to meet a friend for lunch but wouldn’t leave me until a modicum of life force had returned to my face. I had...
Regaining health – one man’s story
Today's article has been provided by David Williams. It's his personal story of recovery. Regaining Health – David M. Williams As we rang in the New Year on January 1, 2020, I...
I’m running a half marathon. Chapter 5: I can talk myself out of anything
Despite a temporary issue with right trochanter pain, my training was going well. So I set off one morning to cover five miles. About a third of the way through I began to wonder...
Stress: Attack of a saber-toothed cat? Or social isolation?
I’ve read it or heard it a hundred times. You have too. It’s the classic depiction of the human “fight or flight” reaction: “You spot the saber toothed cat bearing down on you,...
Build stress resilience
Stress is bad for your health. But it’s not as bad for some people as it is for others. In part, it could be that a lucky few sail though life exposed to less than their fair...
Rehab exercises for the hip, trochanter, piriformis, iliotibial band, and sacroiliac joint
I've just finished my exercise video Strengthening Vertical Landing and Lateral Shift. It can help runners, basketball or tennis players, skiers, or anyone who has problems of...
I’m running a half marathon. Chapter 4: My hip rehab program
After a few training runs I began experiencing some hip pain (trochanteric regional pain syndrome -- here's a link to Chapter 3 that talks about it), so I devised a rehab...
Dr. Lavine’s 15 minute self-care program for the low back
I've just posted my video "Dr. Lavine's 15 minute self-care program for the low back" on Youtube. If you've had low back problems, or want to protect yourself from ever having...
I’m running a half-marathon. Chapter 3: I got hip pain
Analyzing the biomechanical forces that contribute to pain in the area of the hip.
I’m running a half marathon. Chapter 2: the training plan
Once I committed to training for a half-marathon, I had to come up with a plan…
