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The Knee Flexibility Myth
Over-flexibility of the knee joint and surrounding muscles is one of the reasons why females have more knee injuries than males. Other causes are less muscle strength and the wider angle of the hip...
View ArticleBJJ – live to train another day
I’m a blue belt of Brazilian jiu-jitsu. In my opinion, this martial art is not bad for the knees, although injuries are quite common. BJJ focuses on groundwork; therefore, you normally won’t fall down...
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Taking care of our knees every day
It is important to take care of our knees while we are participating in our favourite physical activity. However, it’s equally or even more important to keep our knees in mind while doing everyday...
View ArticleExpensive athletic shoes or barefoot?
A year ago, I wrote an article about using the right shoes in order to prevent knee injuries. Now, it seems to me that many of us have incorrect running and walking techniques because we have used...
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How to fix neck pain
I have had problems with my neck for many years. Often, I had difficulty even turning my head after long day behind the computer. Sometimes the pain was radiating to my shoulders and even down the...
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Is stress related to knee pain?
It may seem at first that stress has nothing to do with joint pain. How can we measure stress? We are all different, according to widespread and very old theory that goes back to the times of...
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Strengthening ab muscles to fix lower back pain
I’ll continue to write about exercises that I have found helpful and useful. Abdominal muscles, or ”six packs,” are very popular — after all, who would not want to have a nice six pack — but we should...
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Should We Perform Squats with Weights or Without?
In order to answer that question, let’s first examine how squats with weights affect our joints. Full/Deep Squats: Deep squats are not recommended for reduced Tibio-femoral joint contact area. While...
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Advanced leg workout
Advanced leg muscle exercises should be functional and also allow safe overload. Functional means that these exercises should improve body balance and must activate most muscles of the lower body....
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More about healthy eating habits
I have written about healthy eating habits before and consider this topic very important in order to maintain healthy joints and good overall health. However, healthy eating habits are like global...
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