PSI Sports Medicine Centre West is providing, for a limited time only, a preventative screening program for runners such as yourself featuring the use of state of the art Dartfish video software (www.dartfish.com). By combining this technology with an assessment by a Registered Physiotherapist we can evaluate your biomechanics and educate you on efficient running form. This knowledge will allow you to maximize your running speed and endurance while minimizing the chance of and severity of future injuries.

Runners of all ages and levels will benefit from participating in this program. Each individualized assessment and exercise program will be tailored to meet your goals. For example, some runners may want to learn how to run more efficiently while others may have discomfort throughout/after their run and want to know how to get rid of this pain.

Missing link?

"Do supplements really work?" Anyone taking multivitamins wonders if they're investing in health and vitality or flushing money down the toilet.

But eating real food is not the only criteria which determines whether you're getting all the nutrients you need or whether supplements work.

Recognition lacking for sports medicine

SPORTS medicine is important to the Caribbean region, but it is not given the recognition it deserves.

That was the view put forward by Dr. A. Llewellyn Harper, Chairman of the just concluded Third World Congress of Science and Medicine in Cricket in an interview with the Barbados Advocate.

He lamented that rather than seeking the help of sports medicine practitioners when they sustain injuries, athletes and people in general, seek the assistance of medical practitioners, who might not be trained to handle their case. He explained that sports medicine is more than just tending to the injuries of athletes, it is musculoskeletal medicine, which means that it looks at arthritis and back pains for instance and, he said it also involves what can be termed as exercise medicine. In the case of the latter he said, persons in that field take care of diabetics and hypertensives as well.

Unhealthy Competition Young kids are training like professionals ...

Excerpted from REVOLUTION IN THE BLEACHERS by Regan McMahon. Published by arrangement with Gotham Books, a member of Penguin Group (USA) Inc. Copyright (c) 2007 by Regan McMahon.

In March 2005, The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine published my article exploring how the over-the-top youth sports culture was affecting kids and families. Titled "How Much Is Too Much?" it generated tremendous reader response, and two months later I signed a deal with Gotham Books to investigate the issue on a national scale. The results of that research, conducted in the academic year 2005-2006, appear in my book, "Revolution in the Bleachers: How Parents Can Take Back Family Life in a World Gone Crazy Over Youth Sports."

[Podcast: Interview with Regan McMahon, the author of "Revolution in the Bleachers," a book about the pressure of youth sports]

In the book, I look at the way youth sports have changed in the past 20 years and how those changes have altered the nature of childhood in America and patterns of family life.

Civil War battlefield inspired Olmstead's latest novel

'What's a story?' Just good practice, you know," Olmstead said. "Just questions in abstraction, questions in theory and then very specific pencil-on-the-page kinds of things. So every week for me is a primer, and I really thrive in the presence of these people who are writers, these young people who are writers."

Olmstead joined the faculty of the undergraduate program, which is part of the Delaware school's English curriculum, in 2002.

"I thoroughly enjoy graduate students, as well, but there's something about undergraduates," he said. "The blood is still close to the skin, you know. And graduate students, of course, these are people who are a little further down the road, who have made this decision about their lives, who have decided to take a shot. And, there again, that really speaks to my heart that people in the year 2007 are still doing this really old, antique thing."

Olmstead studied under a pair of renowned authors, Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff, in the writing program at Syracuse.