Ebook: Running Injuries: Treatment and Prevention

Cover; Contents; I. Injury-Free for Over 30 Years; Why Do We Get Injured ... and How to Avoid the Risks; What Causes Injuries?; Common Weak Links; Why Do Micro-tears Accumulate?; Common Causes of Injuries; Aggravating Factors; How Do You Know if You Are Injured?; You Can Take 5 Days Off from Running with no Significant Loss in Conditioning; Quick Action Can Reduce Recovery Time Needed; How to Lower the Chance of Injury; Staying in Shape when Injured; How to Return to Running; Injuries from Running Form Mistakes; Troubleshooting Form-related Injuries; Speedwork Increases Injury Risk.

Correct Posture Can Reduce Aches and PainsSuggestions for Running Smoother, Reducing Irritation to Weak Links; Cramps in the Muscles?; Here Are Several Ways of Dealing with Cramps; Exercises that Can Prevent/Treat Injuries; Preventing Speed Injuries; II. Treatment of Injuries; About the list of injuries; Area 1 - The Foot And Toes; Toe Nails - Discolored Toe Nails; Toe Nail Trauma; Anywhere on Foot; Blisters And Calluses; Toe Numbness, Pain and Tissue Damage; Raynaud's Syndrome; Front of Foot - Base of Toes, Occasionally Top of Foot; Neuroma; Front of Foot on Bottom - May Include Toes.

MetatarsalgiaThe Second or Third Toe Joint; Metatarsal Phalangeal Synovitis-Also Known As Capsulitis, Pre-Dislocation Syndrome, Plantar Plate Injury; Pain in Outer Top of Foot and Up to Ankle Crease; Extensor Tendinitis; Foot - Front to Middle; Stress Fracture Of The Foot; Behind Big Toe - Top of the Foot at the Instep; First Metatarsal-Cuneiform Area; Pain that Is Deep Inside the Big Toe Joint; Big Toe Pain; Outside of Foot - Midway on the Prominent Bone; 5th Metatarsal Styloid Process Injuries; Outer Side of Heel - Also Below Ankle Bone Moving Toward Mid Foot on Outside.

Peroneal Tendon Injury, Outer Heel Area And Cuboid SyndromeInside of Foot - at Ankle Bone; Tibialis Posterior Medial Foot/Tarsal Tunnel; Bottom of Heel - May Extend Along Bottom of Arch all the Way to Front of Foot; Plantar Fasciitis; Back of Heel - Sometimes Underneath; Posterior Heel Pain; Area 2 - The Ankle; Outside of the Ankle Mostly - But Can Be Inside; Ankle Sprains; On or Around the Outer Ankle Bone; Outer Ankle; Inside of Ankle - Just Above the Ankle Bone; Tibialis Posterior Ankle; Throughout the Ankle - No Specific Area; Recurrent Inversion Sprains And Ankle Instability.

The Tendon Just Above the Back of the Heel BoneAchilles Tendon; Area 3 - Lower Leg Below The Knee; Front of the Lower Leg - Outside of the Shin Bone; Anterior Shin Pain; Front of the Shin - on the Inside Inner Edge; Medial Shin Pain; Outside of the Lower Leg, Above the Ankle to Just Below the Knee; Lateral Lower Leg Pain; Various Pains in the Calf Muscle; Calf Pain; Area 4 - The Knee; Pain at the Kneecap, or at the Muscle Attachment to the Kneecap; Patello-Femoral Knee Pain; The Area Directly Behind the Knee and Toward the Inside; Popliteal And Pes Anserinus Pain; On the Outside of the Knee.

Iliotibial Band And Biceps Femoris Insertion.

""Running Injuries - Treatment and Prevention"" offers easy to access tips on treating and avoiding injuries. It is written in a language that is easy to understand. The book will help runners and walkers understand how injuries occur, how to prevent them, how to heal them: knee, foot, calf, iliotibial band, plantar fascia, achilles tendon, neuroma, and much more. There is also a section on coming back from an injury and exercising while injured. Biographische Informationen Jeff Galloway was an average teenage runner who kept learning and working harder, until he became an Olympian. He is th.