By Konrad Barnes If you’ve made this far in our series, I just want to congratulate you because you have made it to the good part. I think we made it quite clear in our previous articles, either your feet are prone in orientation, supine or overpronated. Yes, you do get those individuals that technically, […]
Konrad Barnes
Konrad is a Biokineticist that specializes in sports rehabilitation and high performance coaching. He has 6 years experience in both corporate and clinical environments in occupational, orthopedic, cardiac and neurological therapy. Currently, he is a first year medical student in the UK. After almost losing his life in the pandemic, Konrad has decided to dedicate the remainder of his life to saving lives. In addition to his clinical experience, he has 5 years of sales and marketing experience in the health and fitness industry.
Overpronation? Understanding Your Feet
By Konrad Barnes In the first part of this article series we covered, wait what? You haven’t read our first instalment of this series? Come on guys and girls, what’s up with that? Okay, okay we’ll wait for you guys to go get caught up. Done? Good. Understanding Your Feet Pronation or Supination Are you Flat […]
Foot Pronation Vs Supination?
By Konrad Barnes As runners we’re almost obsessive about improvement. Improving our diets, improving our training, improving our gear and even improving our mindsets. This is all based on the need to be better, to get the edge over competition. Now there is merit to this madness, as nine out of ten of us are […]
Meniscus Injuries: What Happens to Our Knees?
By Konrad Barnes The knee joint is such a vital component to our existence. Without our knees we can’t move. Our knees allow us to walk, jump, run, twist, squat and even lunge… the knees do it all. Granted, it’s not solely responsible for all these movements. But without a fully functioning set of knee […]
Knee Injuries and Rehabilitation: Getting Back on Your Feet
By Konrad Barnes I think by now we’ve established that our knees are quite important to our everyday functioning. Without them we simply cannot move, and “without movement there is no life”. That is a paraphrased quote that my professor commonly used to describe the importance of our job as therapists and trainers. Injuries directly […]
Why is the ACL so Important?
By Konrad Barnes I’m willing to place a friendly wager that somewhere throughout your life you’ve heard a reference to this infamous bodily structure: THE ACL! Whether you’re an avid sports fanatic that has witnessed your favorite athlete suffer this horrible injury. Or maybe you’re just a weekend warrior that occasionally watches the sport news.Regardless […]
Guide to ACL Rehab
By Konrad Barnes So think you’ve hurt your anterior cruciate ligament? Not sure? Okay, can you place your entire weight on the affected leg without it losing stability? If the answer is yes, get someone to help you with a Lachman’s test. What’s that? Well it’s a special test used by therapists to try and […]
Stop Running Injuries – Exercise Routines for Before and After Runs
By Konrad Barnes And so we’ve come to the end of the journey through the crazy world of running injuries.We have covered everything (well almost everything) from the feet all the way up to the hips.This has given you a great overview of all the different running injuries, their signs and symptoms and how they […]
Runner’s Knee: Everything You Need to Know
By Konrad Barnes One of the most common running injuries we hear about are arguably knee injuries. I’m willing to bet my favorite pair of Saucony’s, that every single person reading this has had some form of knee problem or problems at least once in their life. Okay, maybe not my Saucony’s but you get […]
What is Running Gait?
By Konrad Barnes As runners we’ve come to realize that running isn’t as straightforward a sport as we always thought it was. In fact at the break of the twentieth century, the sport of running transformed from what was essentially a primitive exercising activity with a lot of historical backing, to one of the most […]