SHOEphoria - The Bartold Clinical Podcast

Dr. Wouter Hoogkamer is the principle author of one of the most important pieces of running shoe research ever published.In 2018 his paper “A Comparison of the Energetic Cost of Running in MarathonRacing Shoes” was published in Sports Medicine, and for the first time revealed exactly what was going on with the Nike Vaporfly, the first of the so called Super Shoes,Wouter’s story starts way before that though, and, it is one of the most interesting we have aired on SHOEphoria.Like Kevin Fallon ...

The word legend is bandied about a lot in modern society, however our guest on this episode of SHOEphoria has well and truly earned this moniker.Dr. Kevin Kirby is a podiatric physician, author, educator, mentor, inventor and thinker, and it is impossible to downplay the influence he has had within the worlds of podiatry and biomechanics.Kevin has also been an accomplished athlete, especially as a runner, and remains so interested in running and running shoes, that until recently, he regularl...

It is our great pleasure to introduce to SHOEphoria two of the most influential members of the footwear design and innovation community.Dave Dombrow and Kevin Fallon are running shoe industry veterans. We have never been certain if this term is complementary or an insult!What we do know is that Dombrow and Fallon have enormous experience under their belts, and both have worked with Nike, Puma and most recently, Under Armour.Dave Dombrow actually began his footwear journey with an internship a...

Terry Schalow is the Executive Director of the Running Industry Association, a trade organization dedicated to supporting run specialty stores in the US and Canada. Prior to joining the RIA, Mr Schalow had a long tenure at ASICS America, where his executive roles included business unit management and product development in the performance running footwear category. Terry is one of the most knowledgeable people in the industry in relation to not only footwear, but footwear retail and ret...

Foot blisters are one of the most common foot injuries in sport and everyday life. Yet their cause is largely misunderstood.Real experts are pretty thin on the ground, but Bec Rushton qualifies for this moniker and has been helping people prevent and treat foot blisters in her podiatry clinic, on the sporting field and track-side at running events for twenty five years.In this episode of SHOEphoria Bec opens the lid on the Pandora’s box that is blister management, skewers a few sacred cows, a...

What gives SHOEphoria Podcast listeners the best bang for buck in relation to athletic footwear and injury?Dr. Matt Klein epitomises this as a physical therapist, ex footwear retail guy, runner and now industry insider.Matthew Klein is a residency and fellowship trained physical therapist from Southern California. He is currently a PhD Student at Azusa Pacific UniversityWith a focus on human and footwear interaction, a faculty member at Stanbridge University Physical Therapy Assistant Program...

Trevor Prior qualified in 1983 and, since that time has worked in both the private and public sectors. He obtained a teaching qualification in 1985 before obtaining a post graduate degree in Podiatry in 1989. He obtained his fellowship in Podiatric Surgery in 1993 and in 1994 he established the Podiatric Surgery service in City & Hackney, where he is currently a Consultant Podiatric Surgeon at Homerton University Hospital. He works in private practice and is Director of Premier...

Our guest for SHOEphoria Episode 9 is a clinician, a biomechanist, a physiotherapist, a scientist, a prolific publisher and an enigma.Dr. Irene Davis is a distinguished researcher and academic and the Founder and Director of the Spaulding National Running Centre at Harvard Medical School, Harvard University.Dr. Davis has published extensively in both the fields of physiotherapy and biomechanics, with a particular focus on the management and prevention of running related injury.Her research ha...

It is difficult to know where to start with our guest on this episode of SHOEphoria.She honed her distance running craft as a cross country champion winning two silver medals (2002 Dublin, long race; 2003 Lausanne, long race) in the IAAF World Cross Country Championships.She then switched focus to the marathon distance and set her best time of 2:19:36 at the 2006 London Marathon. This time stands to this day as the American record.She is an Olympic Bronze medallist.She holds or has held ...

Legend is a word that is often bandied around, and frequently unjustified.That said, our guest on Episode 8 of SHOEphoria pretty much invented this descriptor in relation to running.Amby Burfoot won the Boston Marathon in 1968 at the tender age of 22, and went on to set his best time for the marathon at the famed Fukaoka Marathon in Japan in time of 2:14:28.8Amby did not know at the time, but this was just one second from the American marathon record at the time! He told me he would have gone...