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+Exercise | February 18, 2011

Skip the Stretch Before Running — It Doesn’t Prevent Injuries

By Alice Park

Most runners, whether they’re training for a marathon or simply out to get some exercise, will stretch before they take off. It’s a ritual that verges on the sacred, strongly connected to the intuitive sense that priming the muscles is a good way to avoid injuring them during the run to come.

+Trauma | December 24, 2010

When Tragedy Strikes, Do You See Justice in the Suffering?

By Jeffrey Kluger
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In the fall of 2002, I visited Christopher Reeve in his New York home. The star best known for the Superman movies had broken his neck in a riding accident seven years earlier and had barely moved a muscle below his neck since. He had, as it turned out, just two more years to live.

+Quotes | November 26, 2010

“There was a time when children 'weight trained' by carrying milk pails and helping around the farm. Now few children, even young athletes, get sufficient activity.”

—DR. LYLE MICHELI, director of sports medicine at Children's Hospital Boston, on the importance of weight training for children. Many people think weight-training fails to help strengthen children while increasing their risk of injury, but in fact the opposite is likely true [via The New York Times]

+Uncategorized | April 9, 2010

Ouch! Sorry, what was I saying?

By Tiffany O'Callaghan

National Public Radio reported this morning on a growing trend of injuries due to cell phone distraction: a young weight lifter texting while working out drops a weight on himself; a cyclist texting while riding falls and scrapes up his face. In January, the New York Times covered the same subject—highlighting data showing that the [...]

+Prevention | January 22, 2010

Trial run: testing the barefoot running trend

By TIME.com

I don’t particularly enjoy running. On the other hand, I don’t particularly enjoy being overweight and out of shape either, so I do it — usually about three times a week, depending on my work schedule and willpower. But over the years I’ve developed chronic soreness in my knees and lower back, which I attribute [...]

+Psychology | January 14, 2010

Morphine may reduce PTSD risk after traumatic injury

By Tiffany O'Callaghan

Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a growing problem in the U.S., driven largely by the prevalence of the condition among soldiers and other military personnel returning from war in Iraq and Afghanistan. PTSD, which is characterized by feelings of numbness, depression, guilt, vivid nightmares and disrupted sleep, among other symptoms, currently affects 7.7 million American [...]