Reddit reviews Running: Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology in Practice

Here are some medical studies that I have read over the last two years, when I started to be interested on minimalism. Not specially related to flat foot, but for sure you will find lots of scientific evidences on them:

scientific articles

• Running-related injury prevention through barefoot adaptations (1987).
  http://www.ohiobarefoothikers.org/osf/robbins1987.pdf
  
  
• Effectiveness of a long-term use of a minimalist footwear versus habitual shoe on pain, function and mechanical loads in knee osteoarthritis: a randomized controlled trial (2012)
  http://www.biomedcentral.com/content/pdf/1471-2474-13-121.pdf
  
  
• Impact Loading in Running Shoes With Cushioning Column Systems (2003) Arnel Aguinaldo and Andrew Mahar - Children’s Hospital San Diego
  http://www.sdchp.com/JAB_2003.pdf
  
  
• Barefoot Running: Biomechanics and Implications for Running Injuries (2012) Allison R. Altman, PhD and Irene S. Davis, PT, PhD
  http://www.runcoachjason.com/BarefootRunning.pdf
  
  
• Hazard of deceptive advertising of athletic footwear (1997) Steven Robbins, Edward Waked
  http://bjsportmed.com/content/31/4/299.full.pdf
  
  
• THE MYTH OF RUNNING SHOE CUSHIONING (Kyoto, Japan 2002) M.R. Shorten
  http://biomechanica.com/docs/publications/docs/Shorten%20-%20The%20Myth%20of%20Running%20Shoe%20Cushioning.pdf
  
  
• CHANGES IN LOWER EXTREMITY MOVEMENT AND POWER ABSORPTION DURING FOREFOOT STRIKING AND BAREFOOT RUNNING (2012) D. S. Blaise Williams III. Douglas H. Green. Brian Wurzinger.
  http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3474309/pdf/ijspt-07-525.pdf
  
  
• Oxygen Cost of Running Barefoot vs. Running Shod (2010) http://www.therunningclinic.ca/medias/mailinglist/2010-hanson-o2-barefoot-vs-sho.pdf
  
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• This blog is quite interesting also. In particular, I have this article bookmarked:
  http://www.scienceofrunning.com/2010/01/why-running-shoes-do-not-work-looking.html
  
  
• And as a book recomendation, Frans Bosch and Ronald Klomp wrote Running: Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology in Practice:
  http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0443074410/ref=as_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=390957&creativeASIN=0443074410&linkCode=as2&tag=wwwwebcommerceor

I started My Marathon and have a little bit of First Ladies of Running left. Haven't started Running with the Buffaloes yet - but that's high on the list to pick up once I finish those two.

My 'wish list' highlights right now include Duel in the Sun, Spark: The Revolutionary New Science of Exercise and the Brain, The Barefoot Sisters Appalacian Trail books Southbound and Walking Home, Swimming to Antartica, and Physiology really fascinates me even though I only understand a fraction of it so I kind of want to check out Running: Biomechanics and Exercise Physiology in Practice, 1e

I also have a couple of business related books (But those are boring. I just feel like I have to read them to stay relevant in some conversations.) I need to get through, as well as some good fiction reading in just to detox the brain. Haha. Archer has been taking precedence over that before bed lately though.