Women’s Health

The Richmond & Twickenham Times

• It's All In The Balance
  'It's All In The Balance'
• Marathon
  Q. I’m in the marathon for the first time this year – I’ve just reached the 18 mile stage in my training. Do you have any advice for me.
• Your natural knee brace
  What's the cruciate ligament? There are two of them actually, the cruciate ligaments are in your knee, ligaments run from bone to bone and generally are arranged to hold things together.
• How to prepare for skiing and snowboarding
  So if I'm going off to the slopes, what's the best thing to do?
• Inflammation is your body's defence mechanism
  Say you're wearing a new pair of shoes and you can feel them rubbing a bit, when you get home and take them off, you find you've got a blister.
• Ligaments vs tendons
  Ligament runs from bone to bone and tendons run from muscle to bone.
• How to stretch after sport
  It's better to think about a slow sustained gentle stretch, and to hold each stretch for 15 - 20 seconds.

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