From Running Competitor online…
Smoothen Your Landing & Reduce The Risk Of Injury
Updated: Feb 23rd 2011 2:01 PM EST by Matt Fitzgerald
Retrain your stride to reduce impact and injury risk.
Written by: Matt Fitzgerald
Some runners hit the ground hard with their feet. Others land very softly. Even when two major factors affecting impact forces—body weight and running speed—are held constant, there is a large degree of individual variation with respect to this variable. Certain subtleties in biomechanics appear to be at fault for causing a hard landing in some runners.
You can’t always tell who the stompers are by watching them run. But you can tell from their injury history. Studies have shown that runners exhibiting unusually high impact forces when they run also have a very high risk of developing common overuse injuries such as plantar fasciitis and shin splints.
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