To date, no evidence has found that impact on the Achilles tendon is successfully reducible with a heel lift. This is why runners have been treating Achilles injuries the wrong way with heel inserts because in too many places do heel inserts negatively impact a runner. For one, a heel insert abnormally shortens the Achilles which hinders the efficient use of the tendon as an energy-saving spring. Secondly, heel inserts facilitate misaligned mechanics, causing a runner to ram harder heel-first, resulting in dangerous rises in peak impact on the tendon. The good news is that Achilles injury can be a thing of the past with forefoot running. It turns out, foot strike pattern has a big influence on Achilles tendon stress whereby forefoot running is associated with the least amount of impact and physical stress on the Achilles tendon than heel strike running. Read More here!
Bretta Riches
BSc Neurobiology; MSc Biomechanics candidate, ultra minimalist runner & founder of RunForefoot. I was a heel striker, always injured. I was inspired by the great Tirunesh Dibaba to try forefoot running. Now, I'm injury free. This is why I launched Run Forefoot, to advocate the health & performance benefits of forefoot running and to raise awareness on the dangers of heel striking, because the world needs to know.
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