Showing posts with label shoes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label shoes. Show all posts

Thursday, May 3, 2012

Running Shoes & Injury

There are several on-going, multi-year studies at Harvard, MIT and the University of Newcastle (AUS) that are looking at injury related to footwear. Harvard department of Anthropology is publishing a study that dissects unshod human running gait and injury (or lack thereof.)    If the only injury from running shoes is Achilles tendinitis, is the implication that the other “running related injuries” such as neuromas, plantar fascitis, blisters, bunions and joint problems would be present in if people didn’t run?

How Shoe Geometry Affects Running Gait