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• Tibial strain and barefoot running

  
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  Tibial strain and impacts have been getting a lot of attention lately due to all the comments about heel striking being the cause of most running injuries (its not) and this is an important reason why there should be a midfoot or forefoot strike when running. Transitioning away from a heel strike does reduce that ...
  1 week ago

• Foot strike pattern and performance in a marathon

  
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  This study was recently published. It filmed runners at the 8.1km mark of the 2011 Milwaukee Marathon to determine the foot strike pattern and correlate that to performance. Here is the abstract Foot-Strike Pattern and Performance in a Marathon Mark E. Kasmer, Xue-cheng Liu, Kyle G. Roberts, Jason M. Valadao ...
  1 week ago

• The Effect of Foot Strike Pattern on Achilles Tendon Load During Running

  
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  No sooner than I posted about the undergraduate project that looked at Achilles loads between shod and barefoot running that this next study from the University of Wisconsin-La Crosse on the effects of loads in the Achilles tendon with different foot strike patterns turns up. Here is the abstract: The Effect of ...
  2 weeks ago

• Muscle Adaptation During the Transition to Minimalist Running

  
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  Hopefully the title of this post is not misleading, as it is not about the results of a study, but about this press release from the University of Virginia about a study that researchers there are going to do. It is getting a bit of media attention. Here are some snippets from the press release: …people in ...
  2 weeks ago

• Effect of 0 and 4mm drop running shoes on running economy

  
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  This turned up in my alerts today. It is an undergraduate thesis from Fort Lewis College¹: The Acute Effect of Heel to Toe Drop on Running Economy . Brown, Harrison and Silva, Robert (2013). Undergraduate thesis, Fort Lewis College. The purpose of this study was to assess how the running economy of experienced ...
  2 weeks ago

• What evidence is there that ‘barefoot’ running is better to reduce injury risk?

  
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  I have two options for writing this article: 1) I could just leave it blank as there is no evidence. 2) I could explain why there is no evidence. As I have commented in a number of other articles (eg the Vibram class action one) that there is no evidence that ‘barefoot’ running is any better than traditionally ...
  3 weeks ago

• Impact Reduction Through Changing to Midfoot Strike Pattern vs Low Drop Footwear

  
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  There has been considerable interest recently in altering running technique to reduce impact loads and loading rates in the belief that this might reduce injury rates. There was a recent study I previously wrote about and now there is this one : Impact reduction through long-term intervention in recreational ...
  3 weeks ago

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