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British Feet: “The Germanic tribes of Angles and Saxons who invaded Britain in the fifth and sixth centuries A.D. left a significant legacy. Their language evolved into modern English, largely replacing indigenous Celtic tongues. Some of their laws formed the basis of English common law. And their feet, it would now appear, formed the basis [...]

Natural running & healthy living

barefootrunner.com : natural running & healthy living » Lead Story » Do Running Shoes Cause Injuries?: “Do Running Shoes Cause Injuries?
By David • Mar 16th, 2009 • Category: Lead Story • ShareThis
Original post on RailRiders.com/blog. Republished with author’s permission.
A very insightful post that captures the history and future of running footwear. Hope you like it. [...]

Barefoot days – Sydney University researchers exploring the need for shoes

Barefoot days – Jeff Corbett – The Herald: “Barefoot days
Life for a child is at a low pass, I reckon, when their parents won’t let them out of the house without shoes. Yet that is now Australia, or at least urban middle-class Australia. ‘Put your shoes on!’ has been a chorus at my place for [...]

Is your prescription of distance running shoes evidence-based?

Is your prescription of distance running shoes evidence-based?
Richards CE, Magin PJ, Callister R.
PMID: 18424485 [PubMed - in process]
Discipline of General Practice, Bowman Building, School of Medicine and Public Health, University of Newcastle, University Drive, Callaghan 2308, Australia. craig.richards@newcastle.edu.au
OBJECTIVES: To determine whether the current practice of prescribing distance running shoes featuring elevated cushioned heels and pronation [...]

Why were you born with bare feet?

Or come to think of it when was the last time you walked around outside without your shoes on? If you are like most people then your feet rarely touch the ground. But nature has designed you and me to walk around in our bare feet for a reason.
This article will explain why wearing shoes [...]

Barefoot Running – by Michael Warburton

Barefoot Running
Michael Warburton
See the original

Gateway Physiotherapy, Capalaba, Queensland, Australia 4157. 
Sportscience 5(3), sportsci.org/jour/0103/mw.htm, 2001 (2564 words)
Reviewers: Caroline Burge, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane 4006, Australia; Larry M Feinman, Mountain Chiropractic, Lafayette, Colorado 80026, USA; Ian Shrier, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Community Studies, SMBD-Jewish General Hospital, Montreal, Quebec H3T 1E2, Canada

Running barefoot is associated [...]

Barefoot Running Study

Running barefoot is associated with a substantially lower prevalence of acute injuries of the ankle and chronic injuries of the lower leg in developing countries, but well-designed studies of the effects of barefoot and shod running on injury are lacking. Laboratory studies show that the energy cost of running is reduced by about 4% when the feet are not shod. In spite of these apparent benefits, barefoot running is rare in competition, and there are no published controlled trials of the effects of running barefoot on simulated or real competitive performance.

There is no evidence that modern running shoes either prevent injuries or improve performance

Is the modern distance running shoe evidence based?
A scientific mind should challenge my statement that there is no evidence that modern running shoes either prevent injuries or improve performance. To fail to do so merely replaces one unfounded dogmatic belief with yet another.
How then can I back up my claim there there is no evidence [...]

ATHLETIC FOOTWEAR AND RUNNING INJURIES

ATHLETIC FOOTWEAR AND RUNNING INJURIES
The original cane be found here

Essay on the harmful effects of modern running shoes.

(  Written a number of years ago, this piece was published in part in the German ultra magazine Spiridon.)
PART 1 – INTRODUCTION   AND  HISTORY
Look, if anyone displayed brand-loyalty, it was me.  I LOVED my NIKE  AIR MAX  Triax™ [...]

You Walk Wrong

It took 4 million years of evolution to perfect the human foot. But we’re wrecking it with every step we take.