{"id":2316,"date":"2010-02-08T15:04:11","date_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=2316"},"modified":"2010-02-08T15:04:11","modified_gmt":"2010-02-08T15:04:11","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/2316","title":{"rendered":"Going bare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dpfr.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/walsh-pb-trainer-fell-running-shoe.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2789\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dpfr.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/walsh-pb-trainer-fell-running-shoe.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" \/><\/a>For such a natural activity, that has sustained man\u2019s hunting and migration for millions of years, modern running seems to generate a lot of injuries.\u00a0 There is a growing movement of \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.barefootrunning.fas.harvard.edu\/\">&#8216;barefoot runners&#8217;<\/a> who believe that the problem lies with shoes.\u00a0 A recent\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pubmed\/20006314?itool=EntrezSystem2.PEntrez.Pubmed.Pubmed_ResultsPanel.Pubmed_RVDocSum&amp;ordinalpos=3\">study<\/a> demonstrated that greater forces are put through ankles, knees and hips when shoes are worn.\u00a0 This is counter intuitive given the barrage of marketing claims of the \u2018cushioning\u2019 of modern running shoes, but the explanation would appear to lie in the heel striking before the forefoot.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Barefoot running isn\u2019t always an option for soft feet on rough terrain and this has led to thin soled flexible light weight shoes- now where have I heard that before?\u00a0 Methinks a man from Bolton has beaten them to it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For such a natural activity, that has sustained man\u2019s hunting and migration for millions of years, modern running seems to generate a lot of injuries.\u00a0 There is a growing movement of \u00a0&#8216;barefoot runners&#8217; who believe that the problem lies with shoes.\u00a0 A recent\u00a0 study demonstrated that greater forces are put [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}