Individual Responses to a Barefoot Running Program: Insight Into Risk of Injury

Barefoot TJ

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BACKGROUND: Barefoot running is of popular interest because of its alleged benefits for runners, including reduced injury risk and increased ...
 
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I think it is a pity not to be bilingual :meh: and that, unfortunately, this time, Google translate does not help me:lurking:
 
Well, we can only read the abstract and not the complete study, which is a pity.
The scope of the study is so narrow that I don't see what conclusions we could draw. Useful conclusions I mean.
Ok, there's a link between the angle of the ankle at the moment of impact and the loading rate. But they didn't measure where the impact was located compared to the center of mass, while this is probably the most important feature regarding a possible reduction of injury risks.
And yeah, they also conclude that you'd better be taught how to run barefoot rather than be left discovering it on your own. Big deal!
There's one positive thing however: they have conducted a study about barefoot running, so they add to our visibility.
 
voilà, j'ai demandé de l'aide et j'ai obtenu, carrément, la traduction sur la BRS-France (Lambda s'est porté volontaire, merci encore)
je trouve ça extra cette étude qui, pour une fois, semble s'être faite dans une certaine rigueur scientifique.
Dommage, comme le dis Lambda, que l'on aie pas toute l'étude, afin de se faire une opinion encore plus objective

je n'ai pas rencontré énormément de difficulté à me mettre au pieds nus. ça m'est venu de façon naturel
Mais j'ai déjà discuté avec d'autres qui, eux, avaient du mal à ne pas poser le talon en premier au sol... même pieds nus.
Il semblerait que, comme il le suggère en fin d'article, la foulée naturel ne soit pas systématique chez tous et que, à défaut de professeur particulier, ce site soit d'une grande aide pour prodiguer de bons conseils aux débutants... ou pas
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Here, I asked for help and got downright, translation on the BRS-France (Lambda volunteered, thank you again)
I find it great that study which, for once, seems to have made in a certain scientific rigor.Too bad, as say Lambda, which was not the complete study, we could get a more objective opin:meh: ion

I have not met a lot of trouble to put me in bare feet. it came to me so natural.:angelic: But I have already discussed with others who themselves were struggling not to ask the heel first floor ... even barefoot.:sour:
It seems that as they suggest the end of the article, the natural stride is not systematic at all and that, failing a tutor, this site is a great help to provide good advice for beginners;)
 
Whithout full description and photos, im not sure participants was shoeless or some mimimalistick running shoes. If shoeless, what kind of surface they ran and what was weekly distances. I doubt habitual shod participants can run reosonable distanes on hard surface only in 8 week transition time.

According to the abstract, it's a lab study. Since they collected ground-reaction force and kinematics, it had to be on a treadmill.
They also oppose the 'shod' runs and the 'barefoot' runs, so I assume that they were 'barefoot' as 'with they bare feet' and not as 'minshod'.
 
Treadmills do vary. Some are stiffer than others.

I wonder how long they ran? My treadmill has helped to improve my form, but I don't really need to start focusing on form until after mile 4. At that point I really need to pay attention to landing, or it's uncomfortable.
 
I'm definitely not an expert but a sample of 26 habitually shod runners does not sound to me as a wide enough sample.
Also, the last conclusion sounds quite trivial:
"Conscious instruction to runners may be required for them to acquire habitual barefoot running characteristics and to reduce risk of injury."
However it hides something that I think is more relevant: this conclusion means they were not instructed at all, hence people does not learn by themselves how to change their technique, hence they don't listen to their body and don't realize that they are probable heelstriking when running.