In your new book, Biomechanics of Sports Shoes, you say that expensive running shoes are no better at preventing injury than cheap ones. Isn't that heresy? That is a little bit exaggerated. But the relative frequency of running injuries doesn't seem to have changed much in the past 30 years, despite all the developments in sports shoe design. The literature shows that shoes are a minor player in injury development. If you take a bunch of people and want to injure them, send them out every day for a 20-kilometre run. A lot of them will be injured in three weeks. The major factors are the distance run, the intensity and recovery time.
展开▼
