Most recreational runners heel strike, and suffer many injuries per year. Decades of research has clearly demonstrated that the mechanical variables of heel strike running causes injuries, such as runners knee, shin splints, lower back pain, tibial stress fracture and many, many more.
Researchers developed a model explaining how heel strike running can result in a shattered femur.
Virtually any runner who runs with a heel strike, is at a significant risk of injury as compared with runners who use a forefoot strike landing….
To avoid running injuries, you need to avoid heel striking when you run because the list of heel striking injuries appears to be never ending. The […]
Credible evidence suggests that heel striking when running is most likely the reason you have an injured Achilles tendon.
Many of the root causes of running injuries are judged by how a runner pronates. The latest conception is that foot pronation when running is […]
Elastic therapeutic tape is used to improve gait efficiency in heel strikers, however implementing forefoot running maximizes elasticity of the leg far better.
Outside hip pain is a common problem in runners, but I know a lot of the times, it’s due to heel strike running. Optimal running […]
I think heel strike runners are at a greater risk of pulling a muscle because at heel strike, there’s only a very small landing area […]
We’ve heard of runners knee being more common in heel strike running than in forefoot strike running, but heel strike runners have another injury to worry about and that is persistent ankle pain, especially when they run at faster running speeds. How do we know this?
Another suggestion as to why heel strike runners are more likely to injure as compared with runners who use a forefoot strike, is that the human body does not have the anatomy or the physiology to fully absorb impact during the touchdown phase, also known as the impact phase of heel strike running.
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