By?Angela Listug-Vap, DPT, FAAOMPT
The big picture to me is INJURY PREVENTION. The key to injury prevention is training the body to withstand the repetitive stress of running. In order to do this several areas must be addressed:
- Good STRENGTH in both your power muscles and stabilizers. It is frequently weak stabilizing muscles in the trunk, hip and lower leg that lead to the most common running injuries including ITB syndrome, Patellar Tendinitis, and Plantar Fasciitis.
- Maintaining good FLEXIBILITY and MOBILITY in your power muscles and lower extremity joints. With most running injuries tightness/stiffness in hamstrings, hip flexors, quadriceps, calves and/or ankle joints are playing a leading role.
- Solid BALANCE REACTIONS are important so as you move from one leg to the other you?ll be able to react to all the changes in ground forces without a second thought. The best way to improve balance reactions is to practice.
- Training your body to put all the above foundations together and use efficient MOVEMENT STRATEGIES to get the job done well.
CoreAlign is an exercise method that addresses all of the above in a functional position (standing) with the ability to use reciprocal gait patterns (moving legs in the same way we walk and run).? It gives variety to the body so you won?t get bored. A CoreAlign class or session is a huge time saver for the runner trying to ?get it all in?. Ideally one hour, twice a week and your body will reap all the benefits that a successful runner needs.? From a PT perspective it is a training and rehab gem.
Try CoreAlign for yourself! The Core Studio offers free scheduled 15 minute demos, or sign up for a free ?Feel It First? hour-long class ?on the first Monday of each month. ?Find out more information by viewing our Core Studio website by clicking here, or?call 406-541-2606 to reserve your spot.
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Barriers to international manufacturing and high fuel costs have long made overseas production painful for small businesses. Now, an economic trend towards American manufacturing has created a timely entrance to the market for Maker’s Row. The startup, a finalist in last week’s Women 2.0 Pitch Competition,?says it wants to become a go-to resource to create, well, anything. Co-founders Matthew Burnett and Tanya Menendez launched Maker’s Row in November to act as a sort of?Match.com?with?Kiva.org-like profiles for factories and facilities. The site enables recognized designers and amateurs alike to partner with manufactures that are searchable on the site by state to create a range of items, from handbags to sportswear.?It charges manufacturers a subscription fee to post. By commissioning their work to be made stateside, brands can then more closely guide processes and prevent their orders from being stuck in transit abroad or in customs, Burnett says. Facilities are using the platform to communicate with one another and find materials, interactions that have surprised even the co-founders. Maker’s Row sees a sweet spot in getting orders placed by small to mid-size businesses — “people who are serious about making things” — and has raised $75K to date. It is looking to raise $1.25 million to hire backend developers and create more tools to track connections. Burnett said that cultural and language barriers complicated his work with overseas manufacturers when he was a watch designer for the likes of Marc Jacobs and Izod.?”I felt like I was taking a gamble every time I worked with a new manufacturer,” said Burnett. He then started his own collection of domestically made accessories, The Brooklyn Bakery. That is when he met Menendez, who started working on the brand with him when she wasn’t at her day job at Goldman Sachs working on automation projects. The combination of Menendez’s experience with trying to replace legacy processes and the difficulty the duo faced when searching for strong production partners led to the idea for Maker’s Row. Scott Weiner helped launch the company as tech lead, and the concept for making sourcing more accessible led its three co-founders to the Brooklyn Beta summer incubator program to build the first version of their product. Alibaba does similar work in China, but connecting designers with domestic sources seems to be a space that Maker’s Row owns. The DUMBO-based company has visually broken out the steps involved in physical goods production,
Nexon, the freemium gaming company that went public around the time that Zynga did, saw its fourth-quarter revenues jump 39 percent to 30.9 billion Japanese yen ($331.4 million). It still posted a net loss of 94 million yen ($1 million) because of writedowns in various investments and higher tax expenses in South Korea. Founded in Seoul almost 20 years ago, Nexon built a strong business in downloadable PC games in China and South Korea with franchises like MapleStory, which have done more than $1 billion in cumulative revenue. The company later moved its headquarters to Tokyo, and?raised $1.2 billion in a late 2011 IPO. While the company’s stock hasn’t done as badly as Zynga’s over the past year, it hasn’t been easy either. Nexon’s shares trade 29 percent lower than they did a year ago, as gaming stocks like GREE and others globally have struggled. The business’ operating margins declined slightly into this last quarter because the company’s growing line of mobile games have lower profit margins than Nexon’s downloadable game business in China. The company’s shares declined 3.4 percent today to 857 Japanese yen ($9.20). Nexon expects that its PC business will be roughly flat this quarter at between $305.9 million and $324.4 million in revenue. But mobile games will have grown by more than thirty-fold year-over-year at between $79.4 million and $87.4 million in revenue. That’s off the back of two key mobile acquisitions over the past year, including the $468.4 million deal to buy top Japanese game developer gloops. gloops is one of the top developers on DeNA’s Mobage platform. Both DeNA and Nexon recently affirmed a gaming partnership that would bring about 10 different Nexon and gloops-produced games to the Mobage platform this year. Nexon also bought another studio called InBlue in mid-2012, but terms weren’t disclosed.
Apple doesn't care if competitors have cheaper products. It doesn't care if its next big thing canabilizes its last big thing. Not about buying big money-makers, and certainly not about how you think it should deal out stock. Today at Goldman Sach's conference, Tim Cook played the defiant king of an empire too powerful to be distracted by the present or the past. All he sees is Apple's future.![[ Back to EurekAlert! ]](http://www.eurekalert.org/images/back2e.gif){kind=small}
Public release date: 11-Feb-2013
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