Barefoot running survey: Evidence from the field

David Hryvniak, Jay Dicharry, Robert Wilder

A review by James Shmagranoff

Introduction
Running has become increasingly popular over the past 10 years both for leisure and for competition, and because of this interest, shoe company sales and shoe prices have also increased (Hryvniak, Dicharry, & Wilder, 2014). Shoe company investments in design and technology have yet to lead to a decrease in running injuries, which occur at least once a year in an estimated 30-75% of recreational runners, so people have begun to revert back to the pre-shoe era and run barefoot or with minimalistic shoes (Hryvniak, Dicharry, & Wilder, 2014). In order to discover if these new trends are affecting the health of runners, biased studies from shoe companies have flooded the mainstream and have …