Research confirmed that thick cushioned running shoes negatively affects the way children use their feet with the ground during running, while wilting the muscles, soft tissues and tendons in the foot as compared with minimalist shoes and running barefoot.
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.
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.
Heel strike running causes chronic injury because of the heel-to-toe rollover action of the foot that occurs after heel strike was found to produce the highest jolt, jarring, jerky, braking and loading forces that cannot be reducible by cushioned running shoes, but with forefoot running only.
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