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Running Shoe & Injury Prevention

-- Laurent Malisoux --

This PowerTalk focuses on recreational distance running and the role of running shoes on injury prevention. It is popular belief that the relationship between running shoes and running injuries is direct and causal. Is this idea correct, or has it been nurtured by the running shoe industry ever since the appearance of the modern running shoe?

Some recent intervention studies have provided preliminary results that suggest a relationship between specific shoe features and injury risk. How confident can we be about shoe prescription guidelines when we take into account the current (limited) evidence available?

This PowerTalk will address: 
  1. basic knowledge on running injury epidemiology and important methodological considerations to bear in mind when reading scientific literature on the topic
  2. the evidence supporting the role of running shoe features in injury development
  3. recent development in the analysis of running biomechanics and the most relevant biomechanical factors
  4. the injury paradigms that have guided footwear construction and recommendation
  5. some practical considerations for the guidance of runners in their footwear selection.
Docente : Laurent Malisoux
Duur : 2u

Doelgroep : Kinesitherapeuten, sportkinesitherapeuten, podologen, sportartsen, osteopaten,...

Accreditatie : Pro-Q Kine 4 ptn
 

Laurent Malisoux, PhD is the leader of the Physical Activity, Sport & Health research group (department of Precision Health) of the Luxembourg Institute of Health. His main fields of expertise are sports injury prevention, running biomechanics, physical activity assessment and exercise physiology. Laurent completed his PhD in 2006 at UCLouvain (Belgium), focusing on the impact of training and unloading on contractile properties of single human muscle fibers.
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After having worked a few years in Switzerland for a private company specialized in human performance evaluation, training and rehabilitation, he got a grant in Luxembourg for a post-doc project on injury prevention in youth sport. Over the last years, he focused his research activities on the prevention of running-related injuries, as well as on the objective measurement of physical activity in the general population. Amongst others, he conducted three randomized trials investigating the effect of specific shoe features on injury risk in leisure-time runners. These projects relied on both epidemiological and biomechanical approaches.

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