2020-11-13 19:45
Do foot orthotics increase the risk for running injury? According to a new study they do. But that does not gel very well with pretty much all the outcome studies on foot orthotics showing t… Read More
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2018-12-04 19:42
…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 caref… Read More
2018-02-19 01:14
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… Read More
2018-01-13 23:55
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… Read More
2017-12-17 04:16
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… Read More
2017-11-24 12:00
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 ea… Read More
2017-11-18 03:22
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 alread… Read More
2017-11-12 22:40
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… Read More
2017-09-20 01:24
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: Distr… Read More
2017-09-02 09:04
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 funn… Read More
2017-08-31 04:55
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 i… Read More
2017-08-24 03:29
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… Read More
2017-08-04 04:20
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 g… Read More
2017-05-30 23:21
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 t… Read More
2017-04-04 05:17
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 we… Read More
2017-03-30 06:20
Like anyone else who writes about medical or health topics when reporting and commenting on science, I always get responses with anecdotes about what was written with it either does or does… Read More
2017-03-10 20:14
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 fro… Read More
2017-03-04 08:19
I just going to leave this one there with no commentary… Is changing footstrike pattern beneficial to runners? Joseph Hamill & Allison H. Gruber Journal of Sport and Health Scienc… Read More
2017-02-23 02:40
I almost did not get to writing this post today. Mainly because the topic has been done to death and I would really like something more interesting to blog about. I have litigated the footwe… Read More
2017-01-28 21:22
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 h… Read More
2017-01-19 22:41
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… Read More
2016-12-20 19:22
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 convi… Read More
2016-12-10 21:46
…I not too well today and do not have the energy to do a detailed analysis, so will not comment much on this new paper just published. I have litigated the issues previously in this p… Read More
2016-12-06 03:40
Its that time of the year again. I did this in December 2013 and 2014 (I have no idea why I forgot to do it last year though – maybe time is going so quickly!). These figures are the e… Read More
2016-11-12 20:33
Last week I wrote: When I read things like this……I roll my eyes. Not because there is anything wrong with the publication; it is just the heat and vitriol that I and others wer… Read More
2016-11-02 20:54
…I roll my eyes. Not because there is anything wrong with the publication; it is just the heat and vitriol that I and others were subjected to over the years by the fan boy haters for… Read More
2016-10-16 00:55
I currently sitting in Toronto airport waiting for a flight, so will not say anything much on this: The effects of barefoot and barefoot inspired footwear on tibiofemoral kinetics during run… Read More
2016-09-27 21:20
Those who have done one of my Clinical Biomechanics Boot Camps know the dilemma I have of about the pathomechanical link between foot biomechanics and load in the Achilles tendon, and the sp… Read More
2016-09-24 22:18
I struggled to come up with a title for this post as in the study below two key points came out and the points that come out of the study are not necessarily related to each other. Here is t… Read More
2016-08-30 07:55
I previously noted that some barefoot runners claim that the height of the arch of their feet increased after taking up barefoot running; others claim no change and, much to their dismay, so… Read More
2016-08-22 01:56
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 comm… Read More
2016-08-09 04:19
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 t… Read More
2016-07-25 20:37
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 Katr… Read More
2016-07-19 19:26
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 ec… Read More
2016-07-18 06:48
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 th… Read More
2016-07-07 21:40
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 res… Read More
2016-06-04 20:00
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… Read More
2016-03-23 00:07
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 &ldquo&hell…Read More
2016-03-08 02:55
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 Sho… Read More
2016-03-08 01:13
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… Read More
2015-12-14 20:42
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… Read More
2015-11-23 05:30
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… Read More
2015-11-10 22:22
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… Read More
2015-10-21 01:56
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… Read More
2015-10-15 23:16
…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 crankosph… Read More
2015-10-12 22:53
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 s… Read More
2015-10-04 20:34
I like studies like this. Straight forward research question; methods designed to answer the question; and sound methods and analysis. This make a change from the depressing nature of the fa… Read More
2015-09-19 21:53
The energy boost running shoes from Adidas came to the market a few years ago to mixed commentary. Adidas were cautious what they claimed about the shoe, but bench testing did show the the m… Read More
2015-09-09 02:54
The preponderance of studies on foot strike pattern and injury risk have shown that there are no differences. In terms of injury rates, they are the same regardless of the foot strike patter… Read More
2015-09-06 21:40
It is always a pleasure to comment on some good research that really has the potential to change clinical practice; its just a shame that bad science keeps me distracted from commenting on t… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The concept of spinal ‘core stability’ is given a lot of prominence in the media, by coaches and by therapists and is allegedly an important concept for prevention of running inj… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
Two new bits of research from the same group was recently published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine: IMPACT OF INJURY PATTERN DURING TRAINING ON ULTRAMARATHON PERFORMANCE M Khodaee… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
A lot of claims get made for the effect that barefoot or minimalist running has on muscle strength, but there is a lack of good data backing up the volume of the rhetoric and propaganda you… Read More
2006-06-07 11:16
The concept goes something like this: if there is a subtle step-to-step differences in the way we run, then the tissues are loaded very slightly differently with each step. Theoretically, th… Read More
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