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The Barefoot Controversy: Running With Or Without Shoes

Posted on November 11, 2009 by BMJ

Evolutionist Dan Lieberman raised the question of barefoot running in the ACSM‘s Wolfe Memorial Lecture in 2009. Here the New York Times enters the debate by interviewing renowned biomechanist Benno Nigg (University of Calgary) and weaving in data from a recent BJSM paper on what happens as shoes wear out over time. […]

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