What we can learn about running from barefoot running: An evolutionary medical perspective

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews

Volumn 40, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 63-72

  Lieberman, Daniel E ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Barefoot running; evolutionary medicine; footstrike; injury; proprioception; running biomechanics

Indexed keywords

BIOMECHANICS; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDER; EVOLUTION; FOOT; HUMAN; INJURY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROPRIOCEPTION; REVIEW; RUNNING; SHOE;

BIOLOGICAL EVOLUTION; BIOMECHANICS; CUMULATIVE TRAUMA DISORDERS; FOOT; HUMANS; PROPRIOCEPTION; RUNNING; SHOES;

EID: 84859162988     PISSN: 00916331     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/JES.0b013e31824ab210     Document Type: Review

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