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Share with us your thoughts Why does injury so rarely arrive the way you expect it to? Ankle sprains that quietly change how you move years later. Knee pain in elite athletes that isn't really about "bad form." A right way to run that, on closer inspection, doesn't really exist. In this episode of the VOOM Performance Podcast, running rehab specialist and coach Paul Tierney joins Mel Berry to unpack one of the trickiest problems in endurance sport: why injuries happen, why they're rarely as s...
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