The worst type of running shoe for injury prevention are those with soft thick compressible underfoot materials vs firmer cushioning, or even running barefoot! In fact, soft cushioned running shoes was primarily responsible for ankle injury as compared with firmer cushioned running shoes, or barefoot running.
3 verifiable reasons cushioned running shoes with more padding under the heel than the front of the shoe, causes extremely displaced mechanics that produce more physical stress that the body cannot handle as compared with minimalist shoes, which were found to be the most clinically meaningful for form correction and impact production.
Not all cushy running shoes are safe and reliable. Research has found that running shoes with more padding under the heel than the front of the shoe caused runners to land significantly harder on their heels, while causing reckless motions of the foot.
One of the best distance running coaches in history, Alberto Salazar, emphasizes with verifiable facts that forefoot striking is the correct foot strike, and heel striking is not.
In running, the main cause of knee injury is heel striking because it alters your entire stride to the extent where more collisional and compressive impacts pry into the knee, and was also found to increase the degenerative process of the joint, regardless of the amount of under-heel cushioning in a shoe! This is not the case in forefoot running, which has gained universal acclaim as the cure for chronic knee injury.
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