Author speaks about the flowering of cartilage and athletes - Penn State Hershey Cartilage and Joint Institute

pennstatehershey.org: Penn State Hershey Bone and Joint Institute - State College, home of Penn State Sports Medicine. Endurance athletes, such as those who participated in the Boston Marathon earlier this month presented a paradox: they are going further and faster, because the feeling is stronger, but their bones become weaker. New convincing evidence that the very activities that extend our mental and physical abilities to reduce the duration of our skeletons. In his book, ThomasWhipple, a physiotherapist with Penn State Hershey Bone and Joint Institute, and Robert Eckhardt, a scientist at Penn State who specializes in the musculoskeletal system, the team up to explain how the athletes at every level can the delicate balance of resistance training and maintain optimal bone health throughout life. Important scientific advances translate into a more comprehensible language to explain the muscle-bone connection and strategies for training and exercises, nutrition, calcium, stressFractures, rehabilitation, running mechanics, shoes, entertainment and pharmaceuticals. In this video, Tom Whipple speaks about the book, The Endurance paradox: healthy bones for endurance athletes and what we are learning about keeping healthy enough for endurance athletes, the activities they love.