As many of you know, I often volunteer at endurance events, especially marathons. My wife, as well as she knows me, still doesn’t fully understand why I like to do that. That must be because she sees me staggering and bleary-eyed at the end of the races. She asked me about this before I traveled to Boston, which then sent me on the journey thinking a great deal about her question as events transpired. As I reached...
We have become increasingly isolated and fearful, unconcerned about others in our community and often afraid of “them”. Or have we? Like everyone else, I have been thinking a lot about the Boston Marathon terrorist attack. We all have our own take on the event. Many of you know that part of my sports medicine work is as medical support for marathons. Security has increasingly become a concern. At the Olympic...
The mission of this site is to inform and empower you. Representing the sum of my experience as well as the latest clinical research, my perspective is often somewhat at odds with the simplistic articles appearing in the media. Applying the information here you can become healthier, stronger and hopefully happier. Look around and let me know what you think.
