MtViewMike

True story: While running in a park near my home in Mt. View, I sustained a small cut on my big toe. This is a very clean park, and my major worry had actually been the bees that inhabit the patches of clover. But I taped up my toe, and thought about where I might have cut it. The next time I...

Pain in the medial compartment of the knee is a common result of a lifetime of impacts, particularly when the individual has had knee injuries or over-pronates. This pain is characteristically elicited by full extension of the knee at the moment of heel strike. Proper barefoot gait...

Overheating is a very common cause of what is perceived as "tiring out." The body has a number of important ways of dissipating heat, but we seem to try to defeat most of them. For example: There are three circulatory beds designed especially to lose heat: the scalp, the hands, and the feet...

When I lived in Dallas I ran barefoot in a nearby park, in an upscale neighboorhood where there was little chance of encountering sharp objects on the ground. When we moved to California, I was not so confident of the substrate, and got a bee-sting, to boot....so I purchased a pair of Vibram...