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How to Prevent Lower-Back Pain from Spreading Throughout the Body
To deal with stubborn back pain, look to your local lumbar stabilizers for answers.
On the Comeback Trail
Despite intense preparation and a maximum effort, your competitive season didn't go as planned. How do you recoup and regroup?

On a Roll: The Benefits of Foam Rolling
Using foam rollers can help relieve myofascial pain and increase flexibility. Best of all? They're really easy to use.
How to Exercise With Knee and Hip Pain
Pain in your hips or knee joints may cause you to shy away from exercise, but there are ways to work around (or through) the condition - without sacrificing your fitness.
Deep Release: Myofascial-Release Techniques
Are myofascial problems holding you back? Discover how deep-release techniques can help you work out the kinks and improve your flexibility.

Tips to Improve Your Posture
Bad posture doesn't just look bad. It can also compromise your workouts, undermine your health and contribute to injuries. Here's how to straighten up.
Prevent Muscle Imbalances: 4 Exercises to Do After Sitting All Day
Muscle imbalances caused by too much sitting, typing and monitor gazing can set up chronic problems throughout the body. Are work-related imbalances throwing your body out of whack?
What is ChiRunning?
Plagued by chronic running injuries? Perhaps it's time to try ChiRunning, an intuitive style that works with your body and draws from your physical and spiritual center.
Are Women More Prone to Knee Injuries?
If you're an active woman you may be at greater risk for knee injury than your male counterparts. Learn how to protect one of your body's most valuable joints.

Expert Advice to Keep Your Neck Pain-Free
A chronic case of computer neck can undermine your work and your workouts. So don't sit and suffer. Start getting the kinks out – now.
How to Alleviate Common Injuries and Pains
Sports doctors treat common athletic injuries with top-notch technologies. Today, similar solutions are within reach of the average fitness enthusiast.

Flexibility and Strength Drills You Can Do at Your Desk
A full-body stretching and strengthening routine you can do at your desk to help with muscle fatigue and tightness.
What Is Rolfing and Structural Integration?
Structural Integration techniques like Rolfing can improve your posture, your athletic performance and your sense of well-being. But are you ready to be Rolfed?
Bravery In Action
How three people conquered physical and emotional pain to regain their former fitness.

Active Recovery
Many sports injuries heal faster, and many athletes appear happier, when they augment rest with modified recovery workouts.

Tips to Keeping Your Joints Healthy
Degenerative joint disease can cause debilitating pain, loss of mobility, and function, even severe disability. But what if you're just starting to suffer from a little wear and tear? Here's how to work with your joints — not against them.

Periodization: The Fine Art of Fitness Timing
Are you going through the motions and settling for so-so results? Maybe you need a master plan - and a mesocycle.