Different running in shod vs. minimal footwear/barefoot runners - adaptions for prevention of injuries
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- Subject Areas
- Bioinformatics, Biophysics, Orthopedics
- Keywords
- running injuries, accelerometry, sports medicine, online studies
- Copyright
- © 2014 Daumer et al.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, reproduction and adaptation in any medium and for any purpose provided that it is properly attributed. For attribution, the original author(s), title, publication source (PeerJ PrePrints) and either DOI or URL of the article must be cited.
- Cite this article
- 2014. Different running in shod vs. minimal footwear/barefoot runners - adaptions for prevention of injuries. PeerJ PrePrints 2:e497v1 https://doi.org/10.7287/peerj.preprints.497v1
Abstract
In the last years the number of long distance runners who wear minimal footwear or run completely barefoot increased considerably. There is an ongoing debate about the benefits and risks of running in minimal footwear/barefoot instead of running in conventional running shoes. The objectives were to investigate the effect of different types of shoes as well as of different running techniques on acceleration of centre of gravity and to explore a potential link to injuries (subjects are described in table 1). We assessed data with a mobile accelerometry device (actibelt ®, http://www.actibelt.com) during competition. Three runners were additionally investigated during a treadmill test using a high speed camera system simultaneously coupled to a wireless stream of acceleration data. Acceleration raw data was analysed with standardized algorithm packages using R software environment.
Author Comment
This poster is part of the PeerJ "Human Motion Project" collection. Please note, that in the poster the description of ethics approval and informed consent were not provided.