Categories: barefoot running

Rate of impact loading not consistently different in shoes versus forefoot barefoot running

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Published on: April 30, 2020

Audience: Runners and Therapists

Background: Changing running form, particularly through the aid of minimalist or barefoot running, is often proposed to change the type of forces that the body experiences during running.  This in turn may influence of risk for injuries.

Source of information: Zadpoor et al (2011), Lieberman et al (2010) and Squadrone et al (2010) (more…)

Differences in impact loading in older runners

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Published on: April 24, 2020

Repost:  I originally posted this in October 2011 but lost it in the great porn/spam database hack debacle of January 2012.

Purpose: To highlight some key differences in impact loading in older runners versus younger runners (more…)

Barefoot, forefoot strike and heel strike - a biomechanics summary

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Published on: March 19, 2020

Audience: Runners and therapists

Purpose: To summarize the biomechanics of running strike pattern and shod conditions

I feel like in the blogosphere and the popular running media that there is a love affair with all things barefoot.  Barefoot running is associated with forefoot striking and there appears to be changes in the biomechanics associated with alteration in running form when compared with heel striking.  However, the research gets presented as if it is very neat in tidy when in fact it is quite murky.  This post is a work in progress.  It attempts to summarize some of the work comparing barefoot running with shod running and the work that compares forefoot striking and rearfoot striking while running in shoes.  I hope that I have conveyed that the results are quite conflicting.  Hence, what a pain it was to try to summarize this work.

This post will be updated consistently. Please view it as a work in progress. (more…)

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