{"id":424,"date":"2010-02-28T20:06:31","date_gmt":"2010-02-28T20:06:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/?p=424"},"modified":"2010-04-08T12:54:46","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T11:54:46","slug":"dr-casey-kerrigans-recent-study-on-barefoot-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/dr-casey-kerrigans-recent-study-on-barefoot-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Casey Kerrigan&#8217;s recent study on barefoot running"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a recent study mentioned in the national press about the effect of barefoot running on runners&#8217; joints. As usual the press have been quite selective in their quoting from this source. The study, entitled &#8220;<em><a title=\"Running Shoe and joint torques\" href=\"http:\/\/www.pmrjournal.org\/article\/S1934-1482(09)01367-7\/fulltext\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Effect of Running Shoes on Lower Extremity Joint Torques<\/a><\/em>&#8220;, is very specific, followed a small number (68) of runners and looked only at joint torques during running in the subjects. Indeed the authors of the study conceded that there were limitations in the findings.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the research produced very interesting findings for anyone who runs or is considering running barefoot, it is highly recommended that readers of the newspaper articles take a look at the research paper itself (linked above), and draw their own conclusions. Of further interest is the fact that according to Runners&#8217; World, Dr Kerrigan has since moved on from her career in academia and is launching a new shoe company; she gives a very interesting interview with Runner&#8217;s World on the subject of<a href=\"http:\/\/peakperformance.runnersworld.com\/2010\/02\/feb-21-barefoot-running-biomechanics-expert-casey-kerrigan-m-d-hopes-to-develop-a-naturally-compliant-shoe.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> running shoes and running barefoot<\/a>, it&#8217;s well worth a read.<\/p>\n<p>My advice on barefoot running, as ever, is if you try it, start easy and keep a close eye on your adaptations to running without shoes. I happen to believe there are great benefits to be had, but there are risks involved; we are all different and we will all have different results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There has been a recent study mentioned in the national press about the effect of barefoot running on runners&#8217; joints. As usual the press have been quite selective in their quoting from this source. The study, entitled &#8220;The Effect of Running Shoes on Lower Extremity Joint Torques&#8220;, is very specific, followed a small number (68) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[6,24],"class_list":["post-424","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-research","tag-barefoot","tag-running-shoes","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=424"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/424\/revisions\/429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=424"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=424"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/runningtrainingplan.com\/runningpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=424"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}