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ArticleSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2024

The Fallacy of Single Trials: The Need for Multiple Trials in Assessing Running Economy Responses in Advanced Footwear Technology.

Zach B Barrons, Victor Rodrigo-Carranza, Montgomery Bertschy, Wouter Hoogkamer

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Article in Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.), 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

Zach B BarronsIntegrative Locomotion Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA. zbarrons@umass.edu.ORCID 0000-0001-6239-9844
Victor Rodrigo-CarranzaIntegrative Locomotion Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Montgomery BertschyIntegrative Locomotion Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.
Wouter HoogkamerIntegrative Locomotion Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the quest to uncover the underlying mechanisms responsible for the performance-enhancing benefits imparted by advanced footwear technology (AFT), footwear researchers are employing an individual-level approach. In doing so, they hope to unveil individual-specific responses to AFT otherwise masked by a group-level approach. Classifying an individual's response on the basis of running economy (RE) is a logical strategy given that the intended purpose of AFT is to enhance performance; however, caution should be taken when doing so. Metabolic measurement devices are far from perfect, and given the known errors associated with metabolic measurements we would like to reiterate a suggestion first made 40 years ago: when seeking to quantify the interindividual variability of improvement in RE associated with running in AFT, the best practice is to rely on a minimum of two same-day measurements of RE.

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RunningShoesBiomechanical PhenomenaEnergy MetabolismEquipment DesignHumans

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PMID38407747

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