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.
The best starting place to avoid heel striking when running is to avoid lifting the front of your foot back upon and at landing, rather learn to relax the front of your foot and let it fall to the ground so that you can actually land directly on the balls of your foot.
n seniors, minimalist shoes and being barefoot was found to do the most good in dramatically reducing injuries and falling as the flat sole and heightened sense of the ground was translated into more functional movement patterns that accounted for more stable landings, while strengthening the feet and ankles that accounted for big reductions in the risk of falling.
The main cause of toe injury from barefoot running is the toes are being used too much to aggressively push the entire weight of the body forward into the next step. This problem can be completely avoided by landing properly on your forefoot because it makes the knee softly bend and the torso shift slightly forward, which in turn, causes the foot to actually spring up on its own, thereby relieving the toes from being over-engaged to push the body forward through each step.
Lower back pain in running is directly related to running form whereby forefoot running coupled with enabling your torso to rotate was found to be the best prescription in reducing net impact loads off the lower back as compared with heel strike running, which was found to produce excessive impact that was found to cause degerative changes in disc height!
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