RETRACTED: A review of developments into therapeutic running footwear research

This article has been retracted: please see Elsevier Policy on Article Withdrawal (http://www.elsevier.com/locate/withdrawalpolicy).This article has been retracted at the request of the corresponding author (M.R. Shariatmadari).This article has been retracted at the request of the corresponding author as it duplicates significant parts of “Footwear Research – Past, Present And Future” (authors: Benno M. Nigg, Darren Stefanyshyn, Gerald Cole, Kath Boyer), a keynote lecture delivered at the 7th Symposium on Footwear Biomechanics, 27–29 July 2005, Cleveland, Ohio, USA, and available online at http://www.staffs.ac.uk/isb-fw/ISBFootwear.Abstracts05/Nigg_Keynote.pdf.The corresponding author's intention was to use this article as a framework for his own article, rather than to use this text in unmodified form, and to give full acknowledgement to the source, and a revised version was prepared. The article was not intended for publication in this format, but circumstances forced the author to withdraw from the 8th Conference of the International Sports Engineering Association (ISEA) at which the work was due to be presented. Due to a misunderstanding, the article was mistakenly accepted for publication in this unrevised format. The corresponding author would like to apologise to the scientific community for this oversight.