Not any evidence based review or anything like that today. Remember all the propaganda, rhetoric and vitriol about heel striking being evil? I will just leave this Rio Marathon Facebook comment here: As always, I go where the evidence takes me until convinced otherwise ….and a Facebook comment is not evidence, but I think we […]
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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 […]
I know it is only a pilot study, but …. injuries in minimalist runners
You know its never going to be a very good day when you check your alerts over breakfast and this turns up: Self-Reported Minimalist Running Injury Incidence and Severity: A Pilot Study Katrina Ostermann, DO; Lance Ridpath, MS; Jandy B. Hanna, PhD The Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, August 2016, Vol. 116, 512-520. doi:10.7556/jaoa.2016.104 […]
Running Economy and Foot Strike Pattern
When I first caught the title of this ‘study’ my initial reaction was add it to the massive pile of backlogged articles that I need to comment on! I have litigated the running economy and foot strike and shoe type enough times: here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here and here). However, this ‘study’ was different as it […]
How Good are Runners at Self Identifying Their Foot Strike Pattern?
They’re not: There is now more evidence from when I last wrote about this. Shorten (2014) “In the lab: of 17 runners that said they were heel strikers, only 14 really were; of the 20 that said they were midfoot strikers, not one them actually really were; of the 7 that said they were forefoot […]
Why do so many just make stuff up for?
Short rant today. In the genre that I follow and write about often, one does get increasingly frustrated by misinformation, misquoting, misusing, misunderstanding and outright lies about research. I have commented so many times about people just making stuff up and wishing it was true (the wishful thinking fallacy). Not a day goes by in […]
Relevant Gems from the 2016 ACSM Meeting
The American College of Sports Medicine annual meeting in Boston has just come to a close and as I bemoaned about a year ago, I did not get to it, yet again. One day I will go. I do, however devour the abstract books each year as there are always some gems. Here is my […]
The Problem with the Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis
Probably a day does not go by in which I read something somewhere about plantar fasciitis and I end up face palming myself and eye rolling. The worst are those that usually start with “The Truth About…“; that usually gets a double face palm that hurts me and the eyes rolling so far that I […]
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, […]
Impact Related Factors and Running Injury
I have blogged before (Just How Significant are Heel Impacts at Causing Injury When Running?) and repeatedly commented that the evidence that links impact related factors to running injuries is far from compelling. I am not saying they don’t, it is just that the evidence supporting the link is not strong (and one study has […]
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 […]
Intrinsic Muscle Strength in Plantar Fasciitis
Plantar fasciitis is something I have frequently blogged about. Plantar fasciitis is very common. I beleive plantar fasciitis is generally badly managed with a lot of snake oil being touted for it and a lot of one size fits all approaches to treatment from one hit wonders. At any one time, if you had a […]
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 […]
Chi Running did not lead to less injuries
One of the narratives of the various running ‘cults’ is just to make stuff up about the benefits of it and then wish it was true (the wishful thinking fallacy). The claims may or may not be true, but to make them up and wish that they are true is to paint targets on themselves […]
‘Overpronation’ … the quack is strong in this one …
…so is the Dunning-Kruger effect. I have written before on some of the nonsensical stuff that gets written on ‘overpronation’, but most of that is limited to the crankosphere blogosphere, and forums where you can just make stuff up and wish it was true and not provide any citations or evidence to back up the wishful […]