This is my breakfast this morning. 2 egg omelet, stuffed with Wild Alaskan Smoked Salmon, spinach sautéed in extra-virgin olive oil and garlic. used Kerrygold butter for the omelet. Delicious, and healthy with 2 servings of vegetables, with only 7 grams of carbohydrates–all coming from real food. Ingredients 2 oz. Wild Alaskan Sockeye Salmon 2 cups… Continue reading Salmon, Egg and Spinach Breakfast
Category: CrossFit
Running and Gait Retraining
I've been a big fan of gait retraining. I've always struggled on how to quickly teach our athletes how to change their gait. It's difficult to do in the outpatient clinic and especially if you don't have time to find to put them on a treadmill and watch their gait. So, what can you do?… Continue reading Running and Gait Retraining
Shin Splints, Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (#shinsplints)
One of the residents and I teamed up to write about Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome, or "Shin Splints" or bone stress injury of the tibia. Bottom line, it's all about "too much, too fast, too soon" but we add the new evidence of MTSS, its diagnosis and evidence based treatment. Unfortunately there's not much out… Continue reading Shin Splints, Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome (#shinsplints)
Low-Carb (#LCHF) or #keto for Everyone?
INTRODUCTION Low carbohydrate diets (Lowcarb) and specifically #keto have been really taking off as a mainstream nutrition plan. However, despite significant evidence it continues to get a bad rap. As with any "diet", there are always good ways and bad ways to follow this plan. So let's take a look on how one defines lowcarb,… Continue reading Low-Carb (#LCHF) or #keto for Everyone?
Taking Care of the CrossFit Athlete
Hey gang, sorry I've been less active here. Wanted to post this. I just spoke at The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine, where I was able to talk 20 minutes about CrossFit! Amazing. They are leaning forward, and with the growing popularity of CrossFit, the primary care sports medicine docs must understand what to… Continue reading Taking Care of the CrossFit Athlete