Injury: Top-of-the-Foot Pain

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Injury: Top-of-the-Foot Pain
By Jimmy Hart, Running Coach & Personal Trainer

I am active in a couple of barefoot running forums, and I am linked in on a number of barefoot sites. I love the opportunity to share and learn from fellow barefoot folks like myself. Having an extensive background in running and training, I tend to get a lot of questions, which I also enjoy. It seems that a majority of the questions I get are about injuries. This has kind of always been the case even before I became a full-time barefooter, and I was a little surprised to see that it also translates to the barefoot community. There is however a big difference in injuries between the two worlds, barefoot and shod. That difference is that barefooters are getting injured because they are not transitioning properly, and my shod runners are dealing with injuries from poor form, improper shoes, or overuse. With that said I decided to create a section on the site that will address common injuries for all types of runners from beginners to pros, both barefoot and shod.

My first injury to address is one that a lot of barefoot runners face:


Top-of-the-Foot Pain

There seems to be a lack of talk online about why runners get this injury, and I believe that is because a shod runner will rarely have to deal with it. Barefoot running is considered a new running fad so a lot of the issues surrounding it are not yet well studied or explained. To continue reading, please visit: http://gobarefooting.wordpress.com/2010/04/21/injury-top-of-the-foot-pain/

We will explore Treatment & Recovery for TOFP in the next article.

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