I had to roll my eyes at this in my alerts this morning. This was nothing startling, just a case report on 3 runners who got an injury in minimalist running shoes: Minimalist shoe injuries: Three case reports. Cauthon DJ, Langer P, Coniglione TC. Foot (Edinb). 2013 May 10. Running in minimalist shoes continues to […]
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Foot Strike Pattern and Injury Rates
Like the running economy and footwear type issue, I have been meaning to write for a while an article that summarizes the studies on the differences in injury rates between heel strikers and non-heel strikers; but before I got to doing it another two studies appear, so its worth writing about those. To date we […]
Running Shoes and Running Economy
I have been meaning for a while to write an article on all the differing results on the studies that have looked at running economy in traditional running shoes vs barefoot or minimalism. I wanted to create a table of all the studies to look at the results. I still will do that, but we have just […]
Running Asymmetry, Loading Rate and Injury Risk
Asymmetry in the gait is common and is assumed to not necessarily be a good thing for a unidirectional activity such as running, especially if the asymmetry is in impact loads. Various intervention strategies are often used to make the gait more symmetrical, if the asymmetry is assumed to contribute to any injury or gait inefficiency that is present. […]
Latest Figures and Surprise Comment on Running Shoes Sales
[stextbox id=”warning” caption=”Advertisement:”]Paleo Recipe Book | 100 Day Marathon Plan[/stextbox] The commentary on athletic footwear sales for the first quarter of 2013 has just come out from SportsOneSource. The analyst, Matt Powell made the following comments (my emphasis added): Running, declared dead by the stock market, continues to accelerate. Sales of Running shoes grew in the high […]
Funny: Hitler’s Barefoot Running Strategy
Some light relief: As always, I go where the evidence takes me.
Behavioural Risk Factors for Running Injury
This is getting somewhat out of my area of expertise, but I still going to write about it! This study looked at a selected group of parameters to prospectively determine which one of them was a risk factor for a running related injury. Here is the abstract: Predictors of Running-Related Injuries Among 930 Novice Runners; […]
Tibial strain and barefoot running
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 […]
Foot strike pattern and performance in a marathon
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 IJSPP Volume 8, Issue 3, […]
The ‘appeal to antiquity’ fallacy
I have already written on a number of other fallacies that often get used. The ‘appeal to antiquity‘ is another commonly used logical fallacy that is often used when the assumption is that something is better because it is older, is traditional, or has “always has been done.” An often cited example is: “Homeopathy has […]
The Effect of Foot Strike Pattern on Achilles Tendon Load During Running
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 Foot Strike Pattern […]
Achilles tendon forces in minimalist and traditional running shoes
This is one of those, not sure what to make of it research projects. This is another undergraduate research project and has all the shortcomings of projects that happen at that level and has not been published in a peer reviewed journal (see the comments on a previous undergraduate project I discussed). This one is […]
Muscle Adaptation During the Transition to Minimalist Running
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: […]
What are the best selling running shoes?
This is not exactly research and not exactly the most valid data (in fact, its probably not even close), but I going to write about it anyway! I periodically head over to
Peroneal Tendonitis in Runners
Peroneal tendonitis is not exactly a very common running injury, but it is something I did not use to like seeing as the management always seemed to be difficult; but now I don’t mind as we have learnt more about it and it is really not that difficult to manage. There is also not much, […]