Recently the Footwear Biomechanics Group of the International Society of Biomechanics had its conference on the Gold Coast in Australia. I did my best to live post things as it happened but did get a bit bogged down. I did a previous post on some of the gems from the same meeting in Liverpool in […]
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Throwback Thursday: No, expensive running shoes do not lead to 123% increase in injuries
Well, its really only Tuesday, but I did start writing this on a Thursday. In my alerts a while back, there was an exchange between Robbins and the authors on this study. I may or may not weigh in on that debate later, but a comment by Robbins caught my eye: Marti reported that runners […]
Running Shoes and the Preferred Motion Pathway
This was timely. I was just working on the lesson for my Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camp course about the Preferred Motion Pathway and a new publication turns up on it. As Hannibal Smith from the A-Team used to say “I love it when a plan comes together“; or for my daughter’s generation, as Special Agent […]
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 […]
Bending Stiffness of Running Shoes and Running Energetics
Hot on the heels of my last post on the running shoes for the sub-2hr marathon we now have a study that looks at running energetics and the bending stiffness of the shoe. I don’t want to re-litigate all the issues surrounding running shoes and running economy, so they can be read here for background. […]
The running shoe for the sub-2 hr marathon
I previously blogged about the wishful thinking fallacy, pseudoscience and quackery claim that the first sub 2 hour marathon will be run barefoot 2 years ago and nothing since then has convinced me to change my mind. If anything, the opposite has been the case. My belief is that the running shoe that is used […]
Search Engine Popularity of Different Running Shoes Brands
Its that time of the year again. I did this in December 2013,2014 and 2015. These figures are the estimated Google search volume per month for the last 12 months for each brand appended with the words ‘running shoes’. Please read the disclaimer below. As with the 2013 and 2014 posts, there are some disclaimers: […]
Is the drop of a running shoe associated with injury risk?
I previously blogged about the evidence on the use of zero drop vs a higher drop of running shoes and concluded that there is no evidence for one drop over another. Judging by the comments that the post received the ‘fan boys’ did not like that conclusion, responding with the usual rhetoric and propaganda and […]
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, […]
Search Engine Popularity of Running Shoes: 2015 Update
It that time of the year where I use the Google keyword tool to look at the popularity of different Google searches for different running shoes. Previous years here and here. *See comment re Hoka’s in comments below As with previous years, there are disclaimers: The numbers represent the estimated number of times that the […]
Running Shoe Counts
Each year Lava Magazine has been publishing the running shoe counts from “Kona”, the Ironman in Hawaii. They just published the 2015 data from David Jewel at Shoe Ranger of the shoes worn in the marathon leg. I have been putting into table form their data from over the years: Just a couple of notes: […]
Effect of shoe drop on running mechanics
The topic of the “drop” keeps coming up and has generated a lot of interest as well as the usual rhetoric and propaganda. It is defined as the difference between the heel and forefoot height of the shoe, which is more appropriately called the ‘pitch’, but the term ‘drop’, rightly or wrongly, has become the […]
Popularity of Running Shoe Brands Based on Google Search Volume
A year ago, I was bored and used a Google tool to get an estimate of the search volume for the different running shoe brands and posted the results. I decided to update it. Here is the December 2014 estimated monthly search volumes (along with 2013’s): As with the 2013 post, there are some disclaimers: […]
Predatory Publishing (and does footwear in runners influence foot ‘disease’?)
What has that got to do with running? At first glance not a lot, but bear with me. I was first alerted to the concept of predatory publishing by Hylton Menz a while back in the context of a new journal that was launched by a predatory publisher, Clinical Research on Foot and Ankle (and yes, that […]
Running Shoes Can Control Motion
There certainly has been a lot of comments in recent years about how ineffective that running shoes actually are supposed to be at controlling motion and I have sort have gone along with that as that is probably what the preponderance of data was showing. I did take a brief look at this earlier this […]