Best of Casey–science, health, & footwear

The American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), which is the largest sports medicine and exercise science organization in the world, just completely overhauled its recommendations for selecting running shoes. which you can read here, are very different than what they’ve previously been for many, many years. The impetus for the change has come from numerous studies, including […]

As promised, here is our composite analysis of walking. (I recently posted a similar analysis of running here.) This isn’t just a fancy animation but in fact is a computerized robotic model that is driven from data collected in my human motion laboratory, first at Harvard Medical School and then at the University of Virginia. […]

On the heels (ha!) of all our research showing that shoes, especially women’s shoes, need to be completely re-designed, the most prestigious engineering journal in the world, the IEEE, decided to publish an article entitled, “The Race to Build a Better Shoe.” With all the recent questioning of current so-called “better” footwear designs, the editors determined […]

Have you ever noticed how running gives you a certain type of soreness in your muscles that activities like swimming and bicycling don’t? I sure did and I always wondered why. Through our research, I’ve come to learn that the reason is not what many people think. It’s not the “impact” that occurs when our […]

The below GIF isn’t your typical animation, although if it were, it certainly would be a pretty neat one. Instead these are images from a data-driven 3-D robotic model of someone running. The data that are fed into this robotic model come from 3-D motion measurements of joint and limb segment motions that are taken […]

  Every year one of my New Year’s resolutions involves running. But I really don’t like running outside in January when it’s cold. So, instead, I run on a treadmill as does our entire family. (That’s our middle child, Kellyn above). I’ve been enjoying running on a treadmill over the winters for more than a […]

Fifteen years ago, there was no youtube. But there was Barbara Walters, Hugh Downs and the rest of the ABC team who covered my first research paper on the effect of high heels on the knees. A few things to note on this re-released (onto youtube) ABC 20/20 segment: (1) I had just given birth […]

One of our friends, journalist Max Lockwood of Running Insight magazine, cut to the chase by asking me a few simple questions this week: What is torque and How bad is it for the runner? To properly answer Max, I referenced the landmark study we published in 2009, when I was director of the University […]

This week we’ve been on vacation with a group of friends and their families, in North Carolina. A number of us have been taking advantage of running on the nice long stretches of flat sandy beaches. And we’ve all been watching the Olympics. Which has made me reflect on my recent conversation with my friend, Bill Katovsky, […]

I know, that’s a lot but this post that I’ve been promising to write on behalf of all you OESHers who have told me that OESH has helped with metatarsalgia and Morton’s Neuroma, has been a long time in the waiting. Pain in the forefoot, specifically pain in the ball of the foot, occurs far […]