I am learning about this....There a shoes for running barefoot...
What I was told by a person who trains in running that they did
a study on the shoes we have been wearing....What they found
was that there is a higher rate of injuries than with the Barefoot or Minimalist Runners...
That movement came out of research inspired by the first running boom, when doctors began wondering about a rash of injuries afflicting the runners of two decades ago. One of those studies, by D. B. Clement, then of the University of British Columbia, tallied injuries to more than 1,600 runners severely injured enough to seek treatment from sports medicine clinics. It found that three of the most common injuries were Achilles tendinitis, metatarsal fractures, and tibial stress syndrome (leading to shin splints and stress fractures of the tibia). At the same time, other labs were discovering from strikeplate tests that runners hit hard in two places: the heel and the forefoot. The conclusion: Shoes needed elevated, cushioned heels to take stress off the Achilles tendon, plus a cushioned forefoot to protect the metatarsals. "At the time, it was all about reducing those stresses," Murphy says. Two other injuries of concern were runner's knee and plantar fasciitis. For them, Murphy says, the conclusion was that prevention meant pronation control. "If you started putting something firm on the medial side [of the shoe]," he says, "[the idea was] that would prevent everything."
There is more research going on......
Plus you need to build up to running in this way.....
What I was told by a person who trains in running that they did
a study on the shoes we have been wearing....What they found
was that there is a higher rate of injuries than with the Barefoot or Minimalist Runners...
That movement came out of research inspired by the first running boom, when doctors began wondering about a rash of injuries afflicting the runners of two decades ago. One of those studies, by D. B. Clement, then of the University of British Columbia, tallied injuries to more than 1,600 runners severely injured enough to seek treatment from sports medicine clinics. It found that three of the most common injuries were Achilles tendinitis, metatarsal fractures, and tibial stress syndrome (leading to shin splints and stress fractures of the tibia). At the same time, other labs were discovering from strikeplate tests that runners hit hard in two places: the heel and the forefoot. The conclusion: Shoes needed elevated, cushioned heels to take stress off the Achilles tendon, plus a cushioned forefoot to protect the metatarsals. "At the time, it was all about reducing those stresses," Murphy says. Two other injuries of concern were runner's knee and plantar fasciitis. For them, Murphy says, the conclusion was that prevention meant pronation control. "If you started putting something firm on the medial side [of the shoe]," he says, "[the idea was] that would prevent everything."
There is more research going on......
Plus you need to build up to running in this way.....
