A new study, conducted at Southeast Technological University (SETU) in the Republic of Ireland, has revealed that 19 out of 20 runners had an improvement in a very painful and long-lasting heel condition (plantar fasciitis) simply by removing their shoes and running barefoot on grass for 15-minutes every other day. Runners, currently suffering from aContinue reading “A new cure for runners heel pain”
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A new study into running shoes found that comfort could come at the cost of injury.
This is Peter’s latest article written for the Conversation.com 23/09/2020 Evolution dictates that the human body adapts to cope with stresses present in the environment. The removal of stress from our environment means we cease to use that adaption. This is why your muscles grow in response to stress at the gym but shrink whenContinue reading “A new study into running shoes found that comfort could come at the cost of injury.”
What are the most common running injuries?
We pooled injury data from 36-studies in which 18,195 runners reported 10,688 injuries. The purpose was to find out what the most common running injuries were. This is called a systematic review of literature. Our review has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Sports Science and Medicine. In total, this process has takenContinue reading “What are the most common running injuries?”
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