
Why Barefoot Running is Safer for Your Hips
Barefoot running was found to do the most good in safeguarding the hips from both high impact and mechanical displacements by securing safer footsteps as compared with thick cushioned running shoes.
Barefoot running was found to do the most good in safeguarding the hips from both high impact and mechanical displacements by securing safer footsteps as compared with thick cushioned running shoes.
Heel strike running is strongly associated with causing unstable motions of the foot during stance which transfers greater rotational stress and bending strain up the leg, into the hips as compared with forefoot running which engages more controlled and function foot pronation.
Cushioned running shoes, even wearing heel inserts, results in a larger heel-to-toe offset which was found to encourage force-intensive mechanics straining to the Achilles tendon as compared with minimalist running shoes or running barefoot.
The heel-to-toe movement path of the foot in heel strike running plays a dominant role in causing overpronation of the foot as compared with forefoot running.
Research has shown that thick underfoot cushioning that’s soft and compressible caused damaging movement patterns of the foot in the form of overpronation (straining side-to-side motions of the heel) during running as compared with firmer underfoot cushioning.
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