BIOMECHANICS OF RUNNING WITH FOREFOOT-SPRING FOOTWEAR

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  • Jin-Huat Low
  • Charlton Yong-Jie Foo
  • Chen-Hua Yeow

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running##common.commaListSeparator## forefoot-spring##common.commaListSeparator## energy dissipation

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Forefoot strikers have significantly lower rates of repetitive stress injury than rearfoot strikers. The purpose of this study was to design a forefoot-spring footwear to induce habitual rearfoot runners to adopt a forefoot strike pattern and to investigate the effect of this forefoot-spring footwear on lower extremity joints biomechanics during running. Our findings indicated that different lower limb energy absorption strategies were adopted for running with the forefoot-spring footwear, as compared to control footwear. A shift from hip-dominant to ankle-dominant energy absorption strategy may reduce the loading to the hip and knee joints and could be beneficial towards the prevention of running related injuries particularly at the knee joint.

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2014-10-03

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32 International Conference of Biomechanics in Sports (2014)

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Equipment / Instrumentation

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Authors can retain copyright, while granting the International Society of Biomechanics in Sports (ISBS) the right of first publication.