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Movement carcinogens
High heel shoes. Economy airplane seats. Wallets in back pockets. Tight fitting clothes that limit the range of motion required for activities of daily living like tying shoes and picking small humans up off the ground. Laptops literally being used on laps. Sitting in one position for more than twenty minutes. Walking only on smooth…
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It starts small. An ankle sprain when you’re twenty. After three weeks, it feels better so you move on, but with an almost imperceptible decrease of 10° in dorsiflexion. Every cycle of three weeks thereafter comes another layer of the compensation as the nervous system adapts to the altered ground reaction forces. A neuroplastic adaptation…
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