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The question for me is not whether or not we can identify the causative biomechanical Nike Roshe Run Womens abnormality (with no clear evidence in the literature to guide us), but rather why hasn’t Lauren herself spontaneously corrected the problem?The painful feedback from her knee should have led to sub-conscious Nike Air VaporMax Mens compensatory changes in her gait to reduce the stresses on her knee causing the problem. Why hasn’t this occurrred?
Is it that she is over-riding this process by consciously trying to maintain a particular running style that is placing increased stress on her knees? Is it simply that she is a highly motivated runner and has trained herself not to respond to pain? Perhaps it is that she is running with a gait that allows her to perform optimally in the shoes that she is wearing but at the cost of increased stress on her knees?Irrespective I would recommend that Lauren focus on optimising her body’s ability to care for itself. This Adidas Ultra Boost Dames means decreasing the biomechanical and neurological impedance created by her shoes (decrease heel lift, decrease cushioning). It means Lauren allowing her body’s sub-conscious processes to re-take control Nike Air Max 270 Mens of how she runs and her learning to listen to the feedback from her legs rather than a fixed training program when determining how far and how hard to run.First up barefoot running form looks far better, especially picked up on rear view. Pronation in the shod view is significantly higher and producing both a rapid rotation and lateral movement of the ankle. I can’t help but flinch each time the shod foot goes down.Second the asymetry is significant, with the rotation of the right foot after pushing off is up around 30 degrees, and this happens when shod and barefoot. I suspect the push off of the right foot is dominated by little Nike Air Max 270 Femme toe/outside front of the foot, with less force being applied to the big toe. With the inblance in loads on push out the foot is rotated once the stabilizing presence of the ground is removed. The left Nike Air Force 1 Womens foot is fine on push off, looks nice and even with only a small rotation.Third, the classic observation of shod -> heel strike and barefoot -> forefoot strike, but in both cases I don’t think there is particular overstriding to worry about, the knee is flexed in both cases.For me the most obvious area of problems is not the landing, or middle of the stance, the one that screams out to me is the inbalance of loading of the forefoot of the right foot on push off. I would concentrate of pushing off on big toe, and keeping everything as symetrical as possible. This is a dynamic issue rather than a static one so I wouldn’t have though Nike Air Max 90 Femme orthotics would help.
I do wonder if a bout of cross country skiing might help, this would lock the feet into the plane of motion and any asymetries in force production you’d notice as you’d be fighiting Nike Air Max 95 Womens the intertial of long heavy ski rather a short light foot.
Fixing the problem in the right foot/leg on pushoff will probably fix the pain in the right foot that Lauren reports in one of the comments. Whether Nike Air Force 1 Womens it’d make a difference to the left ITBS I couldn’t says, asymetries in one area of the gait will cause compensation elsewhere so there is chance that it might help.
I’d also be inclined to go cold turkey on the cushioned shoes, perhaps go barefoot entirely till the aysmetry is addressed, as barefoot will give Lauren the most feedback on the forces and associated motions she is generating. This will require reduction distances and Nike Air Max 1 Womens speed in each run, and weekly milage to drop massively, so cross training will have to make up the short fall.