Only a short post today as my head hurts from the facepalm. I have a lot of stuff that turns up in my daily alerts. Some of it good, some of it bad and some of it really hurts my head: Distribution of plantar pressure during jogging barefoot or in minimalistic shoes in people who […]
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Running economy barefoot, in minimalist shoes and traditional running shoes
I almost did not get to writing this post today. Mainly because the topic has been done to death and I would really like something more interesting to blog about. I have litigated the footwear and running economy issue many times: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here. So why did I decide to […]
RCT of traditional running shoes vs minimalist running shoes
Several previous prospective randomized studies have looked at injury rates between those using the traditional running shoes and barefoot/minimalist running shoes. I reviewed two here and here and did not review this one. I won’t relitigate the issues surrounding the claims regarding injury rates as I commented on that in those posts. However, the conclusions […]
When I read things like this…
…I roll my eyes. Not because there is anything wrong with the publication; it is just the heat and vitriol that I and others were subjected to over the years by the fan boy haters for pointing out what the overwhelming preponderance of evidence is continuing to show. Their propaganda and rhetoric is still not […]
Impact loads in barefoot and shoe running
I currently sitting in Toronto airport waiting for a flight, so will not say anything much on this: The effects of barefoot and barefoot inspired footwear on tibiofemoral kinetics during running Jonathan Sinclair Human Movement. ISSN (Online) 1899-1955, DOI: 10.1515/humo-2016-0022, October 2016 Purpose. The current investigation aimed to examine the effects of running barefoot and […]
Impacts and injury and the transition to minimalist running shoes
I struggled to come up with a title for this post as in the study below two key points came out and the points that come out of the study are not necessarily related to each other. Here is the study: Injuries observed in a prospective transition from traditional to minimalist footwear: correlation of high […]
Minimalist Running Shoes and Injury Risk
This is not a new study and I did comment on it almost two years ago when the results were first available. What is new is that it was finally published in full today: Minimalist Running Shoes and Injury Risk Among United States Army Soldiers Tyson Greir, MS, Michelle Canham-Chervak, PhD, MPH, Timothy Bushman, MS, […]
Minimalist vs Maximalist Running Shoes and Achilles Tendon Loads
Sometimes I struggle to decide what to include as the title of a blog post; this time is no exception. Should I title this post: “Minimalist Running Shoes Increase the Achilles Tendon Load” or should I title it “Maximalist Running Shoes Decreases the Achilles Tendon Load“? (I played with the headline concept before, here). Either […]
Muscle Activity in Barefoot vs Shod Running
A number of relevant studies a have been published in the last few days. Rather than add them to that massive backlog of papers I need to write about, I am trying to knock them out quickly. The first one showed no injury differences between barefoot and shod runners; the next one showed no differences […]
Effects of a seven week transition to minimalist footwear
One of the criticisms of some studies comparing the mechanics of minimalist vs traditionally shod footwear is that the intervention is acute and the effects were not measured after a period of appropriate acclimation to the different conditions. The results may or may not be the same after that acclimation or transition – we simply […]
The Re-emergence of the Minimal Running Shoe
This just turned up in my alerts “The Re-emergence of the Minimal Running Shoe” …. hmmmm, I was puzzled. I thought the opposite was happening and maybe I had missed a swing back the other way. For example a few months ago, Lower Extremity Review covered it this way: The rise and fall of minimalist […]
The Influence of Arch Type on Injury in Minimally-Shod Runners
We have known for some time that there are different running injury risk profiles for different foot types, often depending on how you choose to classify them. Now this new study is suggesting that different foot types may have different injury risk profiles between traditional shod running and minimalist shod running: The Influence of Arch […]
The effect of minimal shoes on arch structure and intrinsic foot muscle strength
Lets go back to the perennial question on foot muscle strength and traditionally shod running vs barefoot/minimalist running with the publication of this new research: The effect of minimal shoes on arch structure and intrinsic foot muscle strength Elizabeth E. Miller, Katherine K. Whitcome, Daniel E. Lieberman, Heather L. Norton, Rachael E. Dyer Journal of […]
Barefoot/Minimalism Running and Heel Striking
The widely held assumption is that heel striking is associated with the use of more traditional running shoes with padding under the heel and forefoot/midfoot striking is more associated with barefoot or minimal running shoes. The probable reason is the comfort of heel strike with a padded shoe and the somewhat discomfort associated with the […]
Examining injury risk and pain perception in runners using minimalist footwear
All the rhetoric and propaganda over recent years is that minimalist or running barefoot running will reduce the risk of injury. The preponderance of the recent research on injury rates has not supported that. Now we have this new study to add to the mix: Examining injury risk and pain perception in runners using minimalist […]