The Great Pink Run is returning for another year to raise funds for Breast Cancer Ireland. This is a registered charity established to gather significant funding to support pioneering research programmes nationally. It a…
The Achilles tendon is located behind and above the heel. It joins the heel bone to the calf muscles, therefore allowing you to bend your foot downwards away from the ankle. For this reason, the Achilles tendon is cons…
Tough Mudder Tips
Tough Mudder is a 21km obstacle course, which will test your physical and mental strength and stamina. This year it takes place in Ireland on July 9th and 10th at Oldcastle, County Meath. Tough Mudder is more about teamw…
Stress fractures are overuse injuries. They occur when muscles become fatigued. Fatigued muscles are unable to absorb the load and impact from running, which is therefore transferred to the bone, causing a fracture. Stre…
Chronic ankle instability describes repeated episodes of instability causing recurrent ankle sprains. Chronic instability develops sometimes after a single severe ankle sprain or more often after multiple less severe ank…
Flat feet, sometimes referred to as pes planus, fallen arches or pronation of feet, describes feet that do not arch in the middle. This means that in standing the entire sole of the foot is touching the floor. Flat feet …
