Shuttle's "Best of the Week" Jan. 9 - 15

THIS WEEK'S WILD, WEIRD, AND WONDERFUL....

1. For those who missed the "Mile High Miracle" this past week....

2. What is it with ankle instability?

Photo by: Foxtongue

It was a delightful morning....

I was peacefully immersing myself in a quiet pool of intellectual discovery - soaking up the vagaries of how a famous basketball player overcomes chronic ankle instability - when somebody threw a live wire in the water in the form of a tweet:

Cold, wet, and covered in only a thin layer of protective skull, my mind stood there naked and in shock, racing as to how to respond.

My article had been filled with kindly words such as "ankle sprain", "fix the problem", and "avoid further injury". Now, I had research hurled at me with word daggers like "neuromuscular control", "supination", and "peroneal activation". While I may rub shoulders, legs, and lower backs with PT's, ATC's, and S&C coaches on a daily basis, this fact is very clear: I am not a lower extremity rocket scientist!

How was I to respond to @TherapyGirl5, a goddess (one who enjoys a measure of omniscience/omnipotence in a particular field and should be followed rather than worshipped) in the Twitterverse?

I turned to a power beyond my own... our Shuttle owners. 

Here is how the Shuttle products can help with ankle instability:

Advanced proprioceptive exercises on the Shuttle Balance 

@JeffCubos - another Twitter god whom one should reverence, er... follow!

Unilateral jumping onto Shuttle Balance and jumping off to proprioceptive disk

Thanks everyone!

3. Neither injury, nor heart attack, nor death shall keep a runner from their appointed run:

How to prevent and treat every runner’s nemesis

What is the second most common injury among runners?

MARATHONS: 1 cardiac arrest per 184,000 runners and 1 death per 259,000 runners

4. How to improve cervical stabilization using feed-forward perturbation