It is not only minimalism and barefoot jogging versus running shoes or position many show it to be. It is not that running shoe firms outside to produce a profit and are bad. Shoe businesses could be achieving the aims they set out for, but perhaps the aims their aiming for aren't what must be performed. The paradigm upon is the issue.
Running shoes are built upon impact forces, two fundamental assumptions and pronation. It's resulted in a classification system depending on motion control, stability, and cushioning. The thing is this system might have no ground to stand on. Have we been focused in the inappropriate things?
Since you can find a lot of harms going on, let us look at what shoes are designed to do.
Pronation:
Pronation, in particular continues to be built as the bane. We've become inundated with limiting pronation. The fundamental notion behind pronation is the fact that overpronating causes turning of the lower leg(i.e. ankle,tibia, knee) placing pressure on the joints and thus leading to harms. Running shoes are so designed to restrict this pronation. Basically, running shoes are developed and made to place the body in "appropriate" alignment. But do we actually want appropriate alignment?
This paradigm relies on two primary things: (1)through pronation causes and harms (pronation cans change.
Considering the initial assumption, we are able to find several studies which don't demonstrate a connection between harms and pronation. Similar decisions have been reached by other research.
If foot motion/pronation will not call injuries or isn't a risk factor for harms, then one must question if the theory is sound or working...
Considering the next assumption, do pronation is even modified by shoes? Motion control shoes are made to reduce pronation by means of various mechanisms. Most decide to add the same apparatus or a medial post. In study (2001), they found that they failed to shift the kinematics of the calcaneus or tibia bones and failed to transform pronation and examined several motion control shoe devices. Likewise, another study (2007) found compared to cushioning shoes that motion control shoes demonstrated no difference. Dixon (2007) discovered similar results demonstrating that motion control shoes failed to reduce peak eversion (pronation) and did not alter the concentration.
That is kind of a double whammy. If excessive pronation will not cause harms to the amount that everyone believes, and if pronation do not even change, what is the point?
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