…actually, I do get it; I was just being facetious. To explain: I obviously follow the research evidence and how that informs clinical practice and clinical decision making very carefully. If that research stacks up to scrutiny, then it has to inform clinical practice and be factored into the models that underpin clinical practice. What […]
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Throwback Thursday: Reappraisal of Ryan et al (2010)
Yes, I know it’s not Thursday, but in my defence, I have been meaning to get to finish writing this for a while and did start writing it on a Thursday. What I want to do is go back and take another look at this study by Ryan et al, published in 2010. Not that […]
The Ethics of Doing a Gait Analysis
I often enjoy playing the provocateur and can frequently make statements to have that effect. They are not done to be mischevious but are typically done to encourage critical self-reflection, mostly in the context questioning one’s own clinical practice and reflecting on improving that. There is always a context and a purpose. Often those comments […]
Should you trust running shoe research done or funded by Nike?
Of course, you should! So many people have whined for years that the running shoe brands do not do research to back up the claims that they make for their shoes, yet when they do do it they whine that they don’t trust the research as it was done or funded by a running shoe […]
Search Engine Popularity of Different Running Shoe Brands
Its that time of the year again. I did this around this time each year: 2013,2014, 2015 and 2016. 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, 2014, 2015 and […]
Children growing up barefoot more likely to be heel strikers when running
Just had one of those … shake my head… roll the eyes … moments, when this turned up in my alerts. We all been subjected to the propaganda and rhetoric on this. We already know from the actual evidence that 25% of barefoot runners heel strike (when the spun narrative says that this is not […]
Foot Structure and Injury Differences Between Habitually Barefoot and Shod
I was doing a live Facebook thing with Ian Griffiths last week answering questions. One of those questions was about what happened to this blog as I had not posted anything since September. It simply boils down to time. I have what I think are some important posts written in my head and just need […]
No, No …. and … ummm, NO!
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 […]
Barefoot running vs Minimalist running shoes vs Hoka One One
Periodically when I get bored and need a break from what I am doing I often do one of several things. I could go over to amazon.com and read the 1-star reviews on books (it can be quite funny, especially if the book has it fan boys and seeing them attack the 1-star reviews with […]
Running Shoes Boot Camp
Time for some shameless self-promotion. I have been running my online Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camp since last year (you can enrol and start it at any time). It has been very popular and its kept me busy. Now, if I was not busy enough I have launched another course in the same format on Running […]
Relfections from the ISB Footwear Biomechanics Meeting
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 […]
Archie Arch Supporting Flip Flops
Not a lot of science in this post. This is a promotional one for a product I like. The Archies are a one piece flip flop (that we call ‘thongs’ in Australia). They were designed by a physiotherapist here in Australia and they are selling well. The amount of arch support that is built into […]
Pilates, the Functional Movement Screen and Runners
The Functional Movement Screen is something I have commented on a couple of times (here and here), so when a new study on using it in runners turned up I went to look. Initially, I was not going to write about it as writing time is very limited these days and probably should spend that […]
Kinematic and Kinetic Risk Factors for Running Injury
It is always good to see prospective studies on risk factors for injury. Prospective studies carry a lot more weight than cross-sectional studies and require a lot more work on the part of the researchers. This one caught my eye a few months ago, but all sorts of events prevented me getting to it until […]
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 […]