The Danger of Expensive Running Shoes

More than twenty years ago, I was approached by two researchers to investigate links between running shoes and various injuries. Specifically, they had found that more expensive running shoes (with ostensibly superior injury-prevention features) yielded greater injuries because of altered gaits. This was likely a manifestation of a gait homeostatic proccess, where runners subconsciously increased the force with which their feet were hitting the pavement because their shoes had thicker protective padding.

The Parasitic Mind, by Gad Saad, p 102