Ready to ditch the running shoes? Tread carefully

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Ready to ditch the running shoes? Tread carefully

By Genevra Pittman NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Evidence is still shaky on whether ditching the sneakers and hitting the streets barefoot will help runners avoid injuries, a new review concludes. Despite the "media craze" surrounding the potential benefits of barefoot running, it may not be the answer to every stress fracture or shin splint, researchers said. "Barefoot running is not a panacea," Daniel Lieberman, chair of the Department of Human Evolutionary Biology at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, said. ...

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