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There is no shock absorption capabilities through your heels. Meantime, a lot of people land on their heels a lot when they run and you're just, your body's not built to absorb the forces like the ball of your foot could. It's really built as a spring.
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I think that we evolved to primarily land on the ball of her feet because when you land on your foot barefoot it's going to hurt and there was a study done by one of my colleagues looking at the pressure pain threshold of the heel and what they did is they applied pressure and then they determined when somebody felt pain and what they found is that when the pressure exceeds the pressure that you have in walking that's when people start to have pain which tells us that we naturally this hill pad was designed was adapted for attenuating the loads of walking