The barefoot debate: Can minimalist shoes reduce running-related injuries?

Current Sports Medicine Reports

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 160-165

  Rixe, Jeffrey A ^a   Gallo, Robert A ^a   Silvis, Matthew L ^a,b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b PENN STATE COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOOT INJURY; FOREFOOT; GAIT; HUMAN; LEG PAIN; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PATELLOFEMORAL PAIN SYNDROME; PHYSICAL STRESS; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; RUNNING; RUNNING SHOE; SHOE; SHOE INDUSTRY;

ATHLETIC INJURIES; BIOMECHANICS; HUMANS; RUNNING; SHOES; SPORTS EQUIPMENT;

EID: 84863633021     PISSN: 1537890X     EISSN: 15378918     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1249/JSR.0b013e31825640a6     Document Type: Review

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