From the monthly archives:

January 2010

Barefoot Running

A lot of publicity has been given to the concept of barefoot running vs. running in running shoes. Most of the media’s interpretation of the research on this has been extremely misleading (see: Barefoot running and its interpretation by the media).  All the research has shown is that running barefoot is different to running in [...]

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Medial Tibial Stress Syndrome

Medial tibial stress syndrome is the technical name for what most runners call ‘shin splints’, which is a name the medical community gave up using years ago and now considers the name of historical interest only. Medial tibial stress syndrome is relatively common in runners, but does not always get bad enough to interfere with [...]

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