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Stories about: tendon

How Can Sports Be Dangerous for Your Health? 1. You continuously hear about the health state or the accidents suffered by sport stars. Even you can experience small lesions, a wrench or a muscular contracture without making sport. But, in the case of practicing a sport, even the character of the person can harden the treatment. Many sportsmen, even when amateur... 23 January 2008 02:06 GMT What's the Secret of Human Running? Our vulnerability is really located in the Achilles tendon. Even if standing upright, if they lacked an Achilles tendon like in chimps and gorillas, early humans would have been slower than a snail race. "Reverse-engineered" computer models point that in this case, our ancestors would have had difficulties in running... 13 September 2007 03:52 GMT