Silvis, who is studying injury rates among barefooters, says he is seeing an alarming number of foot stress fractures, calf tears, and Achilles strains in runners transitioning to barefoot or minimalist running.
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Glovelike footwear called FiveFingers or Skeletoes became popular. Shoemakers rushed to meet the new demand, introducing lighter, flatter shoes with names like Bare Access and Minimus. "Lieberman's publication, McDougall's book-it was a perfect combination of events," says Matthew Silvis, M.D., a sports medicine physician at Penn State who teaches barefoot technique. In January 2010, with the popularity of Born to Run soaring, the journal Nature put Lieberman's research on its cover. Lieberman showed that when barefoot runners land forefoot first-in front of the arch-their gait is measurably less jarring than shod runners who hit the ground with their heels. McDougall, who also wrote about the Tarahumara for Men's Health in 2006, visited Harvard University, where he met Daniel Lieberman, Ph.D., an evolutionary biologist who studied gait mechanics. In the book, author Christopher McDougall blames spongy shock-absorbing shoes for breeding runners with poor form and weak feet. He was one of legions of runners who'd read the bestselling book Born to Run, about Mexico's Tarahumara, an indigenous tribe whose members compete in races of 100 miles or more in flat sandals-and almost never get hurt. Marathon barefoot he trained and raced in a pair of minimalist running shoes-the kind with a nearly level heel, or "lower drop" in athletic-shoe parlance. Gabriel didn't run (and finally hop) the L.A. To Fogt, Joseph Gabriel was yet another victim of the so-called barefoot running craze. His physical therapist, Darwin Fogt, M.P.T., wasn't surprised by the injury-and not because his patient was 50 years old. It took three months of rest and rehab before he could run again, gingerly. Gabriel had ruptured his Achilles tendon. They shouted, 'It's right there, keep going!' And I'm like, But I can't walk!" So Gabriel hopped the final stretch on his good leg. "Everyone was yelling my name-it was printed on my race bib. I had no idea what had happened and didn't want to make it worse." So he stopped-and the crowd went nuts. I thought it was a muscle," Gabriel recalls". "It wasn't painful it was more like a pulling sensation.
But as he turned onto Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, with the finish line in sight 300 yards away, he felt a sudden tug above his left ankle. After 26 miles enduring a cold rain and gusty winds, he was still on pace to break four hours-his goal after four months of training. Marathon was going well for Joseph Gabriel.
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