Blog Posts in October, 2014
Posted on Oct 30, 2014 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
Dare to Dream : this challenge encompasses the underlying spirit of every Olympic Games, from the lighting of the flame to its quenching. From the time of the ancient Greeks to that of Cathy Freeman ...
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Posted on Oct 23, 2014 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
When a professional athlete is injured, there are a lot of details, dilemmas, conflicts, and challenges. I'm part of the team's team—a mix of physicians, trainers, physical therapists, ...
Continue reading "Mend It Like Beckham-the Power of Progression" »
Posted on Oct 16, 2014 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
In the previous blog post, we saw that the victorious spirit is our evolutionary birthright, an inner strength inherent to our nature as human beings. But sometimes forces like age, accident, and ...
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Posted on Oct 9, 2014 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D
Today, of course, we no longer have to hunt for food and migrate with our food supply like we once did. We find that we were designed as a species for physical high-performance activity and, yet, we ...
Continue reading "Wired to Survive" »
Posted on Oct 1, 2014 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
Africa is the setting for the long dawn of human history and our Darwinian evolutionary sequence. Four million years ago, apelike creatures named Autralopithecus walked upright on that continent. They ...
Continue reading "Born to Run" »