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- Wondering what these itchy bumps are
- Wondering what these itchy bumps are
- Custom foot orthotics in cycling
- Biomechanical Assessment of Work Footwear
- Treatment of ankle sprains
- LBG Summer School 2017
- STJ axis spatial location and rotational equilibrium
- The effects of foot strike on running economy in distance runners
- Homeless feet
- Buerger's Disease
- Interventions for congenital talipes equinovarus (clubfoot).
- Bumps on toes
- Small hole on bottom of foot
- After bunion surgery
- Help: Tiny Small Bumps Located On Sole Of Feet and Side of Pinky & Big Toe
- Unbelievable sharp/electric pain on lateral foot + little toe
- Wondering what these itchy bumps are
- Search Engine Popularity of Different Running Shoes Brands
- Yet again, more of the same …
- Failure to diagnose 10+ years chronic heel pain right foot
- Failure to diagnose 10+ years chronic heel pain right foot
- Help: Tiny Small Bumps Located On Sole Of Feet and Side of Pinky & Big Toe
- Help: Tiny Small Bumps Located On Sole Of Feet and Side of Pinky & Big Toe
- After bunion surgery
- After bunion surgery
- Podiatry Courses
- Podiatry Courses
- Bumps on toes
- Bumps on toes
- Superfeet to offer 3d printed insoles
- Embryonic development in the human foot
- Management of Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
- Talocalcaneal coalition
- Mueller-Weiss Disease of the Tarsal Navicular
- ISPO Australian membership
- The Google Trends Thread
- Foot care practices in those with lymphoedema
- Foot orthoses for unstable feet
- Talar Peroneal Syndrome
- Fate of Obamacare under President Trump
- AmnioFix (amniotic membrance) injections for plantar fasciitis
- Clinical Trials Updates
- Cholesterol level in non-insertional Achilles tendonopathy
- Failure to diagnose 10+ years chronic heel pain right foot
- Running Economy and Foot Strike Pattern
- I know it is only a pilot study, but …. injuries in minimalist runners
- Is the drop of a running shoe associated with injury risk?
- Monday morning laugh
- Barefoot Running and ‘Overpronation’
- Impacts and injury and the transition to minimalist running shoes
Tag Archives: footwear
Is the drop of a running shoe associated with injury risk?
I previously blogged about the evidence on the use of zero drop vs a higher drop of running shoes and concluded that there is no evidence for one drop over another. Judging by the comments that the post received the ‘fan boys’ did not like that conclusion, responding with the usual rhetoric and propaganda and […] Continue reading
Minimalist vs Maximalist Running Shoes and Achilles Tendon Loads
Sometimes I struggle to decide what to include as the title of a blog post; this time is no exception. Should I title this post: “Minimalist Running Shoes Increase the Achilles Tendon Load” or should I title it “Maximalist Running Shoes Decreases the Achilles Tendon Load“? (I played with the headline concept before, here). Continue reading
Posted in Running Shoes, Sports Medicine
Tagged achilles tendon, footwear, maximalism, minimalism, running shoes
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Relevant Gems from the 2015 Footwear Biomechanics Symposium
The Footwear Biomechanics group of the International Society of Biomechanics meets every two years; right now its meeting in Liverpool , UK, so here are some of the relevant selected highlights from this meeting for me: Darren Stefanyshyn started of the meeting with his keynote on Footwear Research: Where do we go from here? The take home message for me was his emphasis on the need to take lab based biomechanical research through to the field or clinic to see if the interventions actually do work to achieve the outcomes that is assumed or speculated from the lab based mechanical studies. Continue reading
Posted in Podiatry, Running Shoes, Sports Medicine
Tagged footwear, podiatry, running shoes
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Use of Toning or Unstable Shoes to Aid Post Marathon Recovery
Toning or unstable shoes do not exactly have much of good track record due to the exaggerated health claims that got made for the product and the multi-million dollar settlements that some of the manufacturers had to enter into. This was based on the lack of evidence for those health claims. That does not mean that these types of shoes are not useful and have some benefits Continue reading
Posted in Podiatry, Running Shoes, Sports Medicine
Tagged footwear, podiatry, running shoes, sports medicine, toning-shoes
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The Effect of Footwear on Running Performance
I have to be honest and say I getting a little bored with the running economy stuff as I have covered the studies on it so many times and its gets harder to rewrite about the same thing again and re-litigate the same issues again. Continue reading
Posted in Running Shoes, Sports Medicine
Tagged footwear, running economy, running shoes, sports medicine
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Do MBT Shoes Work?
What are they? MBT shoes were originally development in Switzerland and were the first of the toning shoes to come on the market. Continue reading
Footwear and Flatfeet: Correlation or Causation?
One of the arguments that often get advanced for a barefoot lifestyle is that shoes cause flat feet as they weaken the muscles. Not sure how people make that conclusion as there is no evidence that footwear wearing populations have feet that is any weaker than barefoot wearing populations – you would have thought that if such claims were being made, those making it would have something to back it up. Just stating it and wishing it was true is a logical fallacy Continue reading
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Tagged foot biomechanics, footwear, loons, running shoes
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Can mixing up the running shoes prevent overuse running injury?
An overuse injury is due to the cumulative load in the tissue being beyond what the tissue can take. To prevent an injury, you have to reduce that cumulative load and/or increase the ability of the tissues to take that load Continue reading