Foot Detox Blog

The answer is no. Does physical therapy cause the tear to heal? The answer is no. But what they do is reduce the symptoms down to a tolerable level and by retraining the other muscles in the shoulder; most patients can go on with their lives. You have to remember that about 1 out of […]

Very rarely can you repair the meniscus. If you put stitches into something that doesn’t have blood supply, it doesn’t heal. So it just tears again. So usually this is treated with a [inaudible]. Achilles rupture. Talked about this earlier. It’s very common in 20-40 year old athlete. Fancy way of saying it, eccentric force […]

This is a cartoon from the back. Calf muscle, big band… your second muscle is back here… then it becomes a tendon right down here. There’s two muscles in your calf, gastrocnemius muscle and the soleus muscle, which then come down to form this Achilles tendon and inserts down into the heel bone.  Treatment once […]

see the video: http://vimeo.com/61096362 Jason Rudolph: The aging athlete. Here we all are. Everybody wants to be able to run wind sprints after your 80s and along with wind sprints after 80s come injuries. This is one of my favorite pictures. This is my ultimate aging athlete. Nolan Ryan, if anybody remembers this 20 years […]