Sports & Dance Injuries
A selection of Dr. Lavine's articles on sports & dance injuries...
Stronger together: The science behind the Happy Trails Running Club
Social support improves health behaviors and helps athletes achieve more. That’s the science behind the Happy Trails Running Club.
I couldn’t take the heat
How much does higher temperature slow you down when running? There’s a formula for that……
Baby steps: how I shaved 15 seconds per mile off my running speed
By increasing my running cadence to 180 steps per minute, I shaved 15 seconds per mile from my running pace. Try it!
Ice versus heat
For years, the RICE protocol (rest, ice, compression, elevation)has been the standard approach to healing from an injury. But it’s all wrong.
Why you have to strengthen your soleus muscle
The soleus is a large calf muscles with a distinct role. Strengthen it to prevent injury, improve running performance, and slow cognitive decline.
Spinal adjustments are even better for knee pain than rehab exercises
Recent research shows that spinal adjustments of the low back and pelvis help relieve knee pain even better than rehab exercises do.
Just finished the 2021 Half Marathon – here’s my takeaway message
My lesson from running the Princeton Half Marathon? You’ve got to fight….for your right….to party!
Protect your health when you’re chained to your computer
If you work at a computer, you have to get up and move periodically throughout the day. Here’s a simple protocol that will protect your health.
3 exercises for the upper back & shoulders
Three exercises for the neck, upper back and shoulders.
The plié – best rehab exercise for the knees and much more
The plié – a basic dance exercise – is the best way to strengthen the knees while preparing the body to absorb vertical landing forces.
Another reason your running slows down as you age
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....
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...
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...
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...
Training for 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...
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...
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...
