What Is The Right Running Shoe For Me?! Modern advances (and claims) have not done much for injury risk! Runners assign a huge level of importance to footwear with respect to injury risk. In my opinion, this is more based on effective marketing than it is based...
Andrew is Interviewed About Running Shoes on Active.com Recently I was interviewed by a reporter from active.com about running shoes. They were trying to find out if running shoes prevented injury. I was happy to talk about the evidence as there are many trends...
Plantar Fasciitis – Part 2 – Treatment and recovery! Part 1 of two-part blog on plantar fasciitis (PF) covered risk factors and prevention. This blog will consider the various ways we can treat it, including a newly researched exercise that has...
Plantar Fasciitis – Part 1 – Causes and prevention strategies These two words strike fear into people either because they have suffered with it, or they have seen friends suffering from it. As well-known a term as plantar fasciitis (PF) is, particularly in...
Barefoot running – Is it better? Part 2 Part 2 Last post we saw that research has not proven barefoot running to be better in general than running with shoes. If you are used to a particular running style and it is working for you it is questionable how...
Barefoot running – Is it better? Part 1 Part 1 You may have heard the claim that barefoot running is more natural as it promotes a front-foot strike (FFS) pattern. The idea is that shoes are a modern invention that interfere with the normal foot-strike pattern...
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