Podcast 122: Achilles problems, glutes & the feet

Key tag words: neuroscience, elon musk, achilles, tendonitis, tendonopathy, eccentric loading, tendon loading, gluteus maximus, gmax, glutes, abductor hallucis, foot pain, hip biomechanics, navicular drop, BEAR, ACL tear, ACL reconstruction, plantar fascitis   Show sponsors:   www.thegaitguys.com That is our website, and it is all you need to remember. Everything you want, need and wish for is right there on the site. Interested in our stuff ? Want to buy some of our lectures or our National Shoe Fit program? Click here (thegaitguys.com or thegaitguys.tumblr.com) and you will come to our websites. In the tabs, you will find tabs for STORE, SEMINARS, BOOK etc. We also lecture every 3rd Wednesday of the month on onlineCE.com. We have an extensive catalogued library of our courses there, you can take them any time for a nominal fee (~$20).   Our podcast is on iTunes, Soundcloud, and just about every other podcast harbor site, just google "the gait guys podcast", you will find us.   Show Notes: Stanford Develops Computer That Literally Plugs Into People's Brains https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/289645 Elon Musk says humans must become cyborgs to stay relevant. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/15/elon-musk-cyborgs-robots-artificial-intelligence-is-he-right 1. achilles tendonopathy: http://www.jospt.org/doi/abs/10.2519/jospt.2016.6462?platform=hootsuite&code=jospt-site 2. achilles tendinitis and tendonosis. Ohberg L, Lorentzon R, Alfredson H, Maffulli N. Eccentric training in patients with chronic Achilles tendinosis: normalised tendon structure and decreased thickness at follow up. British Journal of Sports Medicine. 2004;38(1):8-11. doi:10.1136/bjsm.2001.000284. link to abstract: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1724744/ 3. Is Achilles tendon blood flow related to foot pronation?  E. Wezenbeek,T. M. Willems,N. Mahieu,I. Van Caekenberghe,E. Witvrouw,D. De Clercq http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/sms.12834/full 4.  The effects of gluteus maximus and abductor hallucis strengthening exercises for four weeks on navicular drop and lower extremity muscle activity during gait with flatfoot Young-Mi Goo, MS, PT,1 Tae-Ho Kim, PhD, PT,1,* and Jin-Yong Lim, MS, PT1  J Phys Ther Sci. 2016 Mar; 28(3): 911–915. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4842464/ 5. BEAR https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3g-CagCrZM Bridge-Enhanced Anterior Cruciate Ligament Repair (BEAR) procedure uses stitches and a bridging scaffold (a sponge injected with the patient's blood) to stimulate healing of the torn ACL eliminating the need tendon graft. References: Murray, M., Flutie, B., Kalish, L., Ecklund, K., Fleming, B., Proffen, B. and Micheli, L. (2016). The Bridge-Enhanced Anterior Cruciate Ligament Repair (BEAR) Procedure: An Early Feasibility Cohort Study. Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine, 4(11). L. Proffen, B., S. Perrone, G., Roberts, G. and M. Murray, M. (2015). Bridge-Enhanced ACL Repair: A Review of the Science and the Pathway Through FDA Investigational Device Approval. Annals of Biomedical Engineering, 43(3), pp.805-818