Foot Bone Marrow Edema after a 10-wk Transition to Minimalist Running Shoes

Ridge, Sarah T.; Johnson, A. Wayne; Mitchell, Ulrike H.; Hunter, Iain; Robinson, Eric; Rich, Brent S. E.; Brown, Stephen D.

doi:10.1249/mss.0b013e3182874769

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“…Forty percent of runners who abandoned minimal running training suffered number of drop outs injury and/or pain. Such data corroborate to studies about injuries in novice minimal runners: cases of stress fractures in lower limbs have been reported in runners who had been used barefoot/minimalist shoe as training strategy [21][22][23] . However, it is important to highlight these injuries are also according to the high incidence of running related injuries reported in the literature 4 .…”

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“…A possible explanation is the use of a conventional running shoe in the first and second months of training, with some characteristics similar to their habitual shoe. On the other hand, this result allows speculating that minimalist shoe training can be easier for runners to adapt and keep training, but can also be related to chronicle injuries, as reported by some studies 21,23 . Some limitations are intrinsic to study design and must be acknowledged.…”

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Adherence to Six Months of Instructed Minimalist and Barefoot Running Training

Azevedo

Nóbrega

Amadio

et al. 2016

Rev Bras Med Esporte

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Introduction: The interest in minimalist and barefoot running is growing continuously. However, there is no data on how many runners drop out during this process. Objective: To describe the adhesion and dropout rates of a six-month instructed training program based on barefoot and minimalist footwear running. Methods: Thirty-four recreational runners participated in the study: 20 runners started the race training barefoot, while 14 runners were involved in training with minimalist footwear. Adhesion to intervention programs was evaluated through training spreadsheets and recording attendance at training sessions, while dropouts were evaluated at the end of training. A questionnaire was sent to participants who dropped out of the training, to obtain information related on why they had abandoned it. Results: Considering all participants (n=34), 41.2% of the runners completed six months with reduced plantar protection; 70% of all dropouts occurred in barefoot training; the main reasons for leaving the training were injury/pain (40%) and lack of time/suitable place for training (40%); and the majority of dropouts (50%) occurred in the first month of training. Barefoot training (n=20) showed 70% dropouts, 57.1% of them due to lack of time/suitable place for training; and 71.4% of the dropouts occurred in the first month of the intervention. The training with minimalist footwear (n=14) had fewer dropouts (42.9%) than the barefoot training, all of them due to injury/pain; 50% of them occurred in the third month of intervention. Conclusion: Dropouts usually occur at the beginning of training. Training involving barefoot running has more dropouts than training with minimalist footwear. Intervention programs lasting six months based on minimalist footwear/barefoot seems to have similar adhesion to other supervised exercise programs. The main reasons for dropping out are injury/pain and lack of time/suitable place to run.

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confidence: 56%

Adherence to Six Months of Instructed Minimalist and Barefoot Running Training

Azevedo

Nóbrega

Amadio

et al. 2016

Rev Bras Med Esporte

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“…Further research is needed to examine if running barefoot could be tolerated for longer durations and if the observed lab-based effect would transfer to actual improvements in competitive performance. More research is required before this practice would be recommended to habitually-shod runners, particularly in light of individual variation, as switching quickly from shod to barefoot running has been shown to increase injury risk to muscle and other tissues unaccustomed to the demands of running barefoot [33,34].…”

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A New View of Responses to First-Time Barefoot Running

Wilkinson

Caplan

Akenhead

et al. 2015

Int J Sports Exerc Med

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“…There are different shoes in the market such as instable shoes; 5-toed shoes and the shoes designed for different sports such as running [8][9][10]. The purpose of using instable shoes is involving the muscles more, and as a result, strengthening the muscles and preventing their weaknesses in long-term that play an important role in kinematic and kinetic changes [11,12].…”

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The Effect of Five-Toed Shoes on Electromyographic Activity of Leg Muscles During Stance Phase of Running

Khodaveisi

Razaghzadeh

Anbarian

2017

PTJ

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Purpose:The current study aimed at evaluating the effect of 5-toed shoes on electromyographic activity of leg muscles during the stance phase of running. Methods:The current semi-experimental study recorded the electromyographic activity of tibialis anterior, soleus, gastrocnemius lateralis, and medialis muscles of 15 healthy male students (mean age: 24.5±3.4 years, mean height: 177.6±5.8 cm, and mean weight: 75.7±8.9 kg) during the stance phase of running in barefoot and shod (5-toed shoes) conditions. Paired sample t test was used for statistical analysis with SPSS19. Results:In shod running, electromyographic activity of tibialis anterior during loading response phase (P=0.001) and electromyographic activity of soleus (P=0.002) and medial gastrocnemius (P=0.004) during propulsion phase were significantly higher, compared with the barefoot running; there was no significant difference in gastrocnemius lateralis muscle between both conditions (P˃0.05). Conclusion:According to the current study findings, using 5-toed shoes could increase electromyographic activity of leg muscles during the stance phase of running.

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Foot Bone Marrow Edema after a 10-wk Transition to Minimalist Running Shoes

Abstract: Runners interested in transitioning to minimalist running shoes, such as Vibram FiveFingers, should transition very slowly and gradually to avoid potential stress injury in the foot.

Cited by 119 publications

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Adherence to Six Months of Instructed Minimalist and Barefoot Running Training

Adherence to Six Months of Instructed Minimalist and Barefoot Running Training

A New View of Responses to First-Time Barefoot Running

The Effect of Five-Toed Shoes on Electromyographic Activity of Leg Muscles During Stance Phase of Running

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