Graduate Research

I went to the poster presentations and met a woman named Elizabeth Boyer who told me about her and her partner's (Timothy Derrick) research on the effects of forefoot and hindfoot strikes on one's knees. a forefoot strike is landing on the front of your foot when you stride, and hind foot striking is landing on your heal (more common). Her research shows that if you use a forefoot strike, it is better for your knees though if you don't gradually make the change from hindfoot to forefoot, it will lead to injury