4 December 2018
Strength training for runners; it seems pretty intuitive. It’s reasonable to say that the vast majority of running injuries we see are due to training error – or to put it more simply; exceeding t...
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11 January 2018
One of my earliest (and popular) blogs was Choosing Running Shoes: The Evidence Behind the Recommendations. This is almost 7 years old now, and it felt like the right time to write a more up to date p...
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19 October 2017
A few weeks ago in Sligo, Ireland, Firefly Orthoses held an MSK Summit in a format that the conference circuit had never seen before (within our world at least). All 20 lecturers gave rapid fire 10 mi...
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27 September 2017
So this post is inspired by a blog I recently read on the Run3D website (see here) which was entitled “You aren’t still using 2D gait analysis… are you?” I’d recommend giving it a ...
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6 April 2017
I don’t normally post this sort of thing but this story is too good not to share. This is by no means a testimonial for me, nor do I take any significant credit for the outcome. Back in 2012 I saw a...
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16 February 2017
I’m a huge fan of Laurent Malisoux and his team in Luxembourg; they have published more work on running shoes than any other group in recent years. The ‘drop’ of a shoe (the colloquial term for ...
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3 January 2017
I was back in clinic today after a nice break and it probably won’t be too long before the January injury rush which I tend to see annually. People often turn to running as a quick, simple and cheap...
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11 July 2011
Following a media frenzy in 2010, the concept of running barefoot came under rather close scrutiny. With respect to its potential long term risks/benefits the research is not yet available, so f...
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21 February 2010
It seems that barefoot running is a particularly hot topic at present, and no matter where you turn you are reading things about it. In the last several weeks it has turned up on thousands of bl...
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