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This study shows you don't need to be wearing a £180 shoes to help your Osteoarthritic knees. A good fitting shoe, with a sturdy heel cup and foot bridge can provide you all the benefits you need.
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Unloading Shoes for Self-management of Knee Osteoarthritis: A Randomized Trial. - PubMed - NCBI

Core training programs are more and more adopted by elite level sports teams however is still not encouraged enough at the local/amateur sports team level. Core training integrated into a sports specific strength and conditioning will not only improve ones functional capabilities but will also reduce the rate of stress and fatigue related injuries!

Effect of Core Training on Male Handball Players’ Throwing Velocity - 2017

Question: Are there benefits in 'isolating' the core to enhance upper extremity performance?

Subjects: The study sample consisted of 30 male handball players (age 18.7 ± 3.4 years) who were randomly divided into two groups, an experimental group, E (n = 15, age 18.5 ± 3.0), and a control group, C.

Method: 'For a period of ten weeks, both groups attended their regular handball training sessions (four per week), but in addition, group E participated in a specific and progressive core training program, performed after the general warm-up during each training session.'

Results: Group E, which had participated in additional core training, showed a significant improvement in all throwing tests compared with group C, the control group.

Conclusion: 'A progressive program for strengthening and training the lumbo-pelvic region in order to improve stability and kinetics of movement seems to be related to an increase in handball players’ throwing velocity.

Strength training is vitally important in handball since it leads to an improvement in the specific factors that influence game performance. Therefore, it would seem highly advisable to implement strength training programs in handball training and in team sports in general, due to its influence on performance.

In addition, and more specifically, it would be advisable to introduce a core training program, since significant potential benefits (injury prevention, improvement in static and dynamic balance, improvement in throwing velocity) can be obtained with a relatively small investment of time (10-15 min).'

Full text: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5384065/

How Hormones Affect Your Appetite, Weight, Sleep, Mood And More

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5 Best Cardio Exercises For People With Bad Knees

This study reiterates a common problem seen in pre-season for many sports at the lower levels or people training for a particular event. Basic monitoring of training loads/ volume can help one avoid injuries caused by training overload.

"When training load was fairly constant (ranging from 5% less to 10% more than the previous week) players had

Interesting study, maybe jumping into a freezing bath will be a thing of the past!

"Our results suggest that cold water immersion is no more effective than active recovery for minimizing the inflammatory and stress responses in muscle after resistance exercise." - Nov 2016

Full Text: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1113/JP272881/full

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