Injury risk in leisure-time runners: does the shoe really matter? - Laurent Malisoux, PhD - Luxembourg Institute of Health
Injury risk in leisure-time runners: does the shoe really matter? - Laurent Malisoux, PhD - Luxembourg Institute of Health
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Laurent MALISOUX, PhD
Physical Activity, Sport & Health research group
Department of Precision Health
Luxembourg Institute of Health
Laurent Malisoux, PhD is the leader of the Physical Activity, Sport & Health research group (department of Precision Health) of the Luxembourg Institute of Health.
His main fields of expertise are sports injury prevention, running biomechanics, physical activity assessment and exercise physiology. Laurent completed his PhD in 2006 at UCLouvain (Belgium), focusing on the impact of training and unloading on contractile properties of single human muscle fibres. After having work a few years in Switzerland for a private company specialised in human performance evaluation, training and rehabilitation, he got a grant in Luxembourg for a post-doc project on injury prevention in youth sport.
Over the last years, he focused his research activities on the prevention of running-related injuries, as well as on the objective measurement of physical activity in the general population.
Amongst others, he conducted three randomised trials investigating the effect of specific shoe features on injury risk in leisure-time runners. These projects relied on both epidemiological and biomechanical approaches.
Laurent is Associated Editor of the European Journal of Sports Science.
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