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Joint Ventures' widely successful runing clinic is back! 

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Joint Ventures' Personal Trainer Keith Colby's Corrective Movement program is now available at Joint Ventures' Kenmore Square office. 

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Another great new program at Joint Ventures! If you need to shake up your workout or your body needs a new challenge, this circuit training class using all the best exercise "toys" will surely do the trick.  

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Niggles?  Twinges?  Joint or muscle stiffness?  These are often just signs of minor injuries which will resolve themselves.  But if you have a niggle or twinge which never seems to go away, maybe you should get it checked out to make sure you’re not in for something more serious.  I speak from experience, here is my story: 

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Check out the newest program CURRENTLY "running" at Joint Ventures.  Most distance runners would agree, the best way to increase your mileage and decrease your pace is to add strength training. Learn the best way to do that through this once per week class. 

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Muscles and joints get blamed for a lot of things.  Sharp pain, aching pain, burning pain, stiffness, cracking, and creaking generally get chalked up to “tight muscles” or “damaged joints.”  In a musculoskeletal sense, not every ache or pain can be traced back to a specific injury or damaged structure.  Often, pain can come on gradually and without much incident or change in behavior.  When this happens, a culprit to question is a type of body tissue, called fascia. 

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Posture is an extremely important part of health. It is where movement begins and ends.  Posture doesn’t just indicate musculoskeletal imbalances; it can indicate an injury yet to happen, a food intolerance or bad nutrition habit, even a mood/outlook.   

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Plantar fasciitis is a musculoskeletal condition of the foot and lower leg causing pain in the heel and/or bottom of the foot.  Most basically, plantar fasciitis is an irritation of the tissue on the bottom of the foot.  The fascial tissue is tight, fibrous connective tissue than runs from the front of the heel bone(calcaneus) and extends to the base of the toes(metatarsals).  This tissue has several roles in foot function.  The fascial tissue, in conjunction with muscles within the foot, supports the arch of the foot, attenuates shock as the foot hits the ground and transforms the foot into a rigid lever to propel the body forward as walking or running occurs.   

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Joint Ventures was the exclusive massage provider for RaceMenu's Super Sunday 5 Miler yesterday.  It was a brisk, beautiful day for a run and the post race activities under the tent helped to warm us up real quick! 

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