Q I visited a sports injuries clinic because of a sore knee and was told that one of my legs is slightly shorter than the other and that one of my knees does not turn inwards when my leg does. I’ve been given a heel raise for one shoe

’ at the lumbo-sacral disc level, a muscle imbalance or a leg-length discrepancy (or both) would most likely cause the scoliosis. If so, there’s no reason you shouldn’t be able to continue running once the problem has been resolved.Muscle imbalances can be caused

of microtrauma that occur during any exercise is reduced, and you risk injury. If muscles are consistently going into protective spasm, it is probably for a specific reason. Often it is an attempt to limit movement at a joint because it’s inflamed or painful

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The only thing runners fear more than rabid dogs and toilet emergencies is getting hurt. An injury means taking a break, and runners hate the thought of losing fitness, gaining weight or missing an endorphin fix. But what if you knew what injuries

't bad.The one thing I have learnt is that if you're told to rest the injury, that alone will simply enable it to recover to the stage where it was before you did the exercise that caused the injury in the first place – so you'll be forever experiencing