By Craig Friedman for EXOS It’s a common misconception that reaching out in front with your foot and “grabbing” the ground in front of you when you run makes you faster. When you reach in front of yourself, it forces your foot to contact the ground ahead of your body and applies force in the…
By Tia Albright for EXOS As a fitness coach with the German men’s national team and EXOS since 2010, Benjamin Kugel’s made his mark with both the EXOS team and the Germany players. In 2013, he took his career one step further and accepted the role as head of performance for German club team FC…
Markus Rehm ? ? ? ? ? ? Alan Oliveira ? ?? Össur is pleased to announce that two Paralympic athletes and world record holders have joined Team Össur.?Alan Oliveira?from Brazil and?Markus Rehm from Germany are both world record holders in their respective disciplines of 100m sprint and long jump. Brazilian-born Alan Fonteles Cardoso Oliveira…
One of the most dreaded things an athlete can hear is that your ACL is torn. I had to process this difficult news after waking up from surgery to repair my torn meniscus which uncovered that my left ACL was also torn from an old high school soccer injury. As a competitive 2’s sand volleyball…
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How does it feel to finally have women’s ski jumping in the Olympics? I don’t think it’s completely sunk in yet. I know that I’m going to the Olympics next week, and I know I’m going for ski jumping. It’s been something I have wanted to happen for as long as I can remember. I…
Let’s take a closer look at the recent New England Journal of Medicine article on arthroscopic partial meniscectomy,”says Brian Cole, M.D. Dr. Cole, Professor in the Departments of Orthopaedic Surgery and Anatomy & Cell Biology at Rush University Medical Center, tells OTW, “There are a number of problems with this study. It took five years…