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Examining the Most Effective Method to Reduce Running Ground Contact Time

NCT06988709 · Status: RECRUITING · Phase: NA · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 30

Last updated 2025-12-12

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Summary

The purpose of our study is to establish the most effective running retraining technique to decrease ground contact time. This will be investigated by applying three running retraining conditions and assessing the change in ground contact time and other biomechanical variables between the runner's baseline running and each retraining technique.

Conditions

  • Healthy Runners

Interventions

OTHER

Real-time Visual Feedback

Runners will visualize their real-time ground contact time (GCT) measured by the RunScribe on a TV screen. They will be instructed to run with a goal of matching their target GCT. Their target GCT will be 5% less than their baseline.

OTHER

Real-time Auditory Feedback

Runners will be instructed to match their step rate to a target step rate, 10% above their baseline step rate. A metronome will be played over a speaker to provide real-time auditory feedback of the target step rate.

OTHER

Real-time Verbal Feedback

The clinician will provide real-time verbal feedback to runner to "pull your foot off the ground as quickly as you can," every 15 seconds during the retraining condition.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Keller Army Community Hospital

    lead FED

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
OTHER
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
17 Years
Max Age
60 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2025-05-01
Primary Completion
2026-12-01
Completion
2026-12-01

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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