The following was taken from http://www.sportsscientists.com
In the article, http://www.sportsscientists.com/2007/09/running-technique-part-ii-scientific.html
The author asked (and ultimately answered) this question, "Does Pose increase the risk of ankle injuries?"
One of the "positives" of Pose running, according to proponents of the method, is a transfer of eccentric work on the knee. This would reduce the potential for injury on that joint, at least according to users of the method...
Apparently, the transfer of eccentric work didn't exactly disappear, it transferred as injuries to the calf and ankles (according to the author).
Was there supporting evidence?
On the one hand, it's difficult to tell since some incurred Achilles or calf muscle problems 3 weeks after Romanoff (founder of the Pose method) left. On the other hand, 9 out of 10 athletes had the problems. The author personally worked with 10 additional athletes but had only 5 complaints. Still, the total was 70% and that's significant!
The author rhetorically suggested the reason for the a high occurence of injuries may have been that the runners were unsupervised after initial training and did not fully adapt to the technique or abandoned the technique entirely and were injured from the transition to another technique.
The reality of the suggestions that the injury was high when using the technique was underscored by the fact that complaints of stiffness, burning calves and Achilles pain began prior to Romanov leaving!
One of the authors of this article, Ross Tucker, suggests that mass coaching of a technique is problematical. He suggests that
anecdotal evidence supports his contention and provides the following as "evidence"--"It was been reported, for example, that whenever a workshop is held in a city, the orthopedic specialists know that they should anticipate an influx of people with calf and ankle problems about a week or two later!" Finally, he add, "So for every positive story you hear (there are some, make no mistake, some people get it right and it works), there are those of disappointment and injury as a result of a 'generic' running technique."
Some readers might be nodding their head in agreement with Tucker's take on the "Pose" method, while others are wondering why I've posted this article at this time.
It's best to keep in mind "supporting evidence" and "Tucker's take" till the next blog!