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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2016 Mar 21.
Published in final edited form as: Int J Sports Physiol Perform. 2012 Sep 19;8(3):286–292. doi: 10.1123/ijspp.8.3.286

Table 1.

Foot-strike evaluation of 1,991 runners, divided by foot-strike classification and gender (% of Gender = % of gender with specific foot-strike pattern, % of Total = % of total foot-strike pattern observed in particular gender, OR=Odds Ratio, CI=Confidence Interval).


N % of Gender % of Total
Male n=1160 Fore-foot 7 0.60% (OR=1.25, CI=0.36–4.28) 63.64%
Mid-foot 71 6.12% (OR=1.73, CI=1.12–2.68) 70.30%
Heel 1073 92.50% (OR=0.68, CI=0.43–3.85) 57.53%
Split 9 0.78% (OR=1.28, CI=0.49–0.93) 64.29%

Female n=831 Fore-foot 4 0.48% 36.36%
Mid-foot 30 3.61% 29.70%
Heel 792 95.31% 42.47%
Split 5 0.60% 35.71%

Total N=1991 Fore-foot 11 0.55%
Mid-foot 101 5.07%
Heel 1865 93.67%
Split 14 0.70%