NCT06110637

Effects of Running Shoe Sole Hardness on Vibration and Neuromuscular Fatigue During a Half-marathon Run on a Treadmill

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 20 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Saint Etienne · Academic / Other
• Sex: Male
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

During running, each contact between the foot and the ground causes an impact. Ground reaction forces (GRF) are considered as an input into the musculoskeletal system. It involves a sudden deceleration in the lower limb packages (including muscles) which generates Soft-Tissue Vibrations (STV). The body is able to attenuate Soft-Tissue Vibrations (STV) but this capability decreases with fatigue. STV could be minimize by improving shoe midsole hardness.

Detailed description

Only 4 studies have studied Soft-Tissue Vibrations (STV) with a distance not exceeding 10 km and without evaluating the potential influence of the shoe. Thus, the effects of shoe midsole hardness on Soft-Tissue Vibrations (STV) and neuromuscular fatigue at the end of an intense and/or long run remains unknown. The purpose is to compare two shoes whose only midsole hardness differs during a half-marathon on Soft-Tissue Vibrations (STV), neuromuscular fatigue and running kinetics. Maybe the shoe ensuring a better STV damping of the medial gastrocnemius muscle would reduce neuromuscular fatigue and improve comfort.

Conditions

• Healthy Volunteers

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	"hard shoes" runners evaluation	The "hard shoes" runners get on the treadmill for 21 km at a speed corresponding to 70 percent (%) of their the maximum aerobic speed (MAV) and are evaluated.
OTHER	"Soft shoes" runners evaluation	The "soft shoes" runners get on the treadmill for 21 km at a speed corresponding to 70 percent (%) of their the maximum aerobic speed (MAV) and are evaluated.

Timeline

• Start date: 2022-06-15
• Primary completion: 2022-12-15
• Completion: 2023-01-06
• First posted: 2023-10-31
• Last updated: 2023-12-01

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France