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Footstrike kinematic effects of motor learning strategies to retrain running gait

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Gittoes, Marianne J.R.
Ashford, Kelly
Michelmore, Charlotte
Moore, Isabel
Date
2017-11-14
Acceptance date
2017-11
Type
Conference paper
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
ISSN
0264-0414
1466-447X (ESSN)
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Abstract
Running gait retraining, which uses motor learning strategies, is increasingly being advocated as an effective rehabilitation approach to allow runners to mitigate the risks of re-injury and to remain physically active (Davis and Crowell, 2011, Clinical Biomechanics, 26, 78-83). By providing gait retraining cues, lower-limb running kinematics at footstrike may be altered to affect the mechanical risks of overuse running injuries. The aim of this study was to develop insight into the influence of a short-term gait retraining strategy on the footstrike kinematics of rearfoot-striking runners. With institutional ethical approval, lower-limb kinematics were tracked using CODAmotion V6.79.3 (Charnwood Dynamics Ltd, Leicestershire, UK) analysis during treadmill running conditions for six recreational, habitually rearfoot-striking runners (mean ± SD age: 24.8 ± 6.2 years; height 1.69 ± 0.08 m; body mass 67.9 ± 7.1 kg). Each participant completed three, six minute running conditions (10 kilometres per hour) separated by a five minute rest period. A normal (N) condition and two intervention conditions using the verbal cues of “run like you are trying to squash oranges” (O) and “run quietly” (Q) were completed in a randomised order. Sagittal and frontal plane kinematics were derived during the last minute of each six minute running condition. Footstrike was defined using the vertical acceleration data of the first contacting foot marker. While step frequency was maintained (mean ± SD all footstrikes: 1.40 ± 0.11 Hz, n = 159) across conditions, the O condition elicited a shallower foot orientation (difference: N = 7.6°, effect size [ES] = 0.66; Q = 6.0°, ES = 0.51) compared to the other conditions. While cueing had a small effect on the foot inversion-eversion angle (difference: O to N = 1.3°, ES = 0.23; O to Q = 1.0°, ES = 0.18), moderate effects on the rearfoot orientation were evidenced (difference: O to N = 3.2°, ES = 0.61; O to Q = 2.9°, ES = 0.50). More proximally, the two cueing conditions had large effects on the knee extension at footstrike compared to the N condition (O to N ES = 0.82; Q to N ES = 0.82). Conditional responses indicated the potential to elicit mechanical transitions in habitually rearfoot-striking runners using an analogy learning strategy. Short-term gait retraining strategies may accordingly be implemented in rehabilitation programmes to alleviate the kinematic risk of overuse running injury. Consideration of the associated physiological effects of the respective retraining programme are however, advocated.
Journal/conference proceeding
Journal of Sports Sciences / BASES Conference 2017;
Citation
Gittoes, M., Ashford, K., Michelmore, C. & Moore, I. (2017) 'Footstrike kinematic effects of motor learning strategies to retrain running gait', Journal of Sports Sciences, 35 Issue supplement 1:Bases Conference 2017
URI
http://hdl.handle.net/10369/9288
DOI
http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2017.1378421
Description
This abstract was published in Journal of Sports Sciences : BASES Conference 2017 – Programme and Abstracts on 24 November 2017 (online) available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02640414.2017.1378421
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http://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved
Sponsorship
Cardiff Metropolitan University (Grant ID: Cardiff Metropolian (Internal))
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