Injury-Free Running
Your Illustrated Guide to Biomechanics, Gait Analysis, and Injury Prevention
$56.97
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2025
Summary
This no-nonsense guide shows you how an understanding of anatomy and biomechanics, coupled with the latest strengthening exercises and rehab protocols, can keep you running injury-free for a long time to come.
Each time your foot hits the ground while running, an impact force averaging three times your weight travels through your body at more than 200 miles per hour, causing your bones to vibrate and tendons to stretch. When you consider that the average runner strikes the ground more…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781718245570 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1718245572 |
| Author: | Tom C. Michaud |
| Publisher: | Human Kinetics Publishers |
| Imprint: | Human Kinetics Publishers |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Edition: | 2nd |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2025 |
| Weight: | 544g |
| Dimensions: | 246mm x 189mm |
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About The Author
Tom C. Michaud
Dr. Tom Michaud has published numerous book chapters and dozens of articles on subjects ranging from biomechanics of the first ray and shoulder to the pathomechanics of vertebral artery dissection since graduating from the University of Western States Chiropractic College.
In 1993, Michaud’s first textbook was published: Foot Orthoses and Other Forms of Conservative Foot Care, which was eventually translated into four languages. His next book, published in 2012, Human Locomotion: The Conservative Management of Gait-Related Disorders, was a textbook used in physical therapy, chiropractic, pedorthic, and podiatry schools around the world.
In addition to lecturing on clinical biomechanics internationally, Michaud has served on the editorial review boards for Chiropractic Sports Medicine and The Australasian Journal of Podiatric Medicine. Over the past 35 years, Michaud has maintained a busy private practice in Newton, Massachusetts, where he has treated thousands of elite and recreational runners.
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