Podcast #140: Running, hallux amputation, building deeper gait concepts.

Topics: achilles tendon, achilles tendinopathy, rehab achilles, bursae, marathons, vapourfly, shoes, shoe fit, gait, gait problems, gait correction, gait retraining, running, foot strike, heel strike, midfoot strike, rearfoot strike, heel strike, loading responses, gait rehab, muscle strength, isotonics Links to find the podcast: Look for us on iTunes, Google Play, Podbean, PlayerFM and more. Just Google "the gait guys podcast". Our Websites: www.thegaitguys.com doctorallen.co summitchiroandrehab.com shawnallen.net Our website is all you need to remember. Everything you want, need and wish for is right there on the site. Interested in our stuff ? Want to buy some of our lectures or our National Shoe Fit program? Click here (thegaitguys.com or thegaitguys.tumblr.com) and you will come to our websites. In the tabs, you will find tabs for STORE, SEMINARS, BOOK etc. We also lecture every 3rd Wednesday of the month on onlineCE.com. We have an extensive catalogued library of our courses there, you can take them any time for a nominal fee (~$20). Our podcast is on iTunes and just about every other podcast harbor site, just google "the gait guys podcast", you will find us.   Topics and links: The tendinopathic Achilles tendon does not remain iso-volumetric upon repeated loading: insights from 3D ultrasound. Nuri L, et al. J Exp Biol. 2017. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/28620014/ Good tip to decrease loading and help decrease injury risk in runners: See study by Chan et al.: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0363546517736277?url_ver=Z39.88-2003𝔯_id=ori%3Arid%3Acrossref.org𝔯_dat=cr_pub%3Dpubmed& Vapourfly shoe https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/07/18/upshot/nike-vaporfly-shoe-strava.html Men’s marathon: https://twitter.com/chrisbramah/status/1019481750039343104/photo/1 fun facts: Foot strike patterns of the World Championships Marathon: Women’s race: 73% rearfoot, 24% midfoot, 3% forefoot Men’s race: 67% rearfoot, 30% midfoot, 3% forefoot pic.twitter.com/iWRzjImQBZ https://www.iaaf.org/about-iaaf/documents/research#biomechanical-research-projects Foot structure and stiffness is critical https://www.nature.com/articles/srep29870 Tendons can change Progressive calf strength training led to increased achilles stiffness @ 4 weeks & increased tendon cross sectional area @ 8 weeks https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s00421-018-3904-1 Bursae can thicken painlessly as a normal adaption to activity... just like skin calluses! https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24907190 Between 63-72% of participants were wearing incorrectly sized footwear. review of the literature here from @LTPodiatry team: https://jfootankleres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s13047-018-0284-z How Neuroscientists Explain the Mind-Clearing Magic of Running -- from the Science of Us https://www.huffingtonpost.com/science-of-us/how-neuroscientists-expla_b_9787466.html