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Thick Cushioned Running Shoes Causes Injury by Increases Damaging Loading Rates

Thick Cushioned Running Shoes Cause Injuries by Increasing Damaging Loading Rates, Regardless of Foot Strike

13/05/2024 Bretta Riches 0

More research confirms that thick cushioned running shoes are not a quick fix for injury because they consistently fail to absorb impact and reduce other physical stressors, regardless of foot strike type. So, if you land with a forefoot strike, which is the safest, lightest foot strike pattern in running, you will still generate greater-than-normal impacts in thickly cushioned running shoes as compared with thinner, more barefoot-inspired footwear.

Why Older Runners Need to Wear Minimalist Running Shoes

10/05/2024 Bretta Riches 2

Minimalist running shoes work best for older runners in preventing falls, enabling the feet to become strong to deflect loading and absorb impact without protective running shoes, while making the foot’s bony architecture more tolerable at handling normal loading as compared with thick cushioned running shoes.

What Running Style is Best for Your Knees? Forefoot Running NOT Heel Strike Running

02/05/2024 Bretta Riches 2

Landing with a forefoot strike when running was found to prevent irregularities in your entire mechanics that account for the avoidance of damaging impacts to the knee as compared with heel strike running.

Heel Strike Running Causes Bone Pain

29/04/2024 Bretta Riches 1

Unlike forefoot runners, heel strike runners have the highest risk of abnormal bone loading and strain, and therefore bone injury, because regardless of thick shoe cushioning, heel strike running always produces the highest amounts of the vertical ground reaction force (high burst in prolonged collision impact) and peak accelerations (opposing forces on the bones).

Heel Strike Running Causes Slipped Discs

25/04/2024 Bretta Riches 2

When it comes to protecting your lower back long-term, the research reveals that foot strike matter immensely whereby forefoot running prevents the weakening of the shock-absorbing structures in the back, preventing impact-induced degenerative changes to the back that are caused by heel strike running.