ONE OF MY GOALS in this column is to keep readers up to date on new developments that affect backcountry…
In 1992, a group of wilderness medicine devotees at Stanford, led by Dr. Gentile, undertook a study looking at the…
I am writing this column while flying home from the Boston Marathon. Fortunately, there is no one else sitting in…
I’ll start with a mea culpa. I believe that I mentioned hiking without shoes in an article quite some time…
I’ll start with a mea culpa. I believe that I mentioned hiking without shoes in an article quite some time…
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physicians were notorious for attaching their names to various diseases, injuries, and body parts. The Irish surgeon…
A reader recently inquired about the problem of heel pain in hikers. Although heel pain rarely causes early termination of…