Is barefoot running less likely to incur injuries than running in running shoes?
Population | Intervention | Comparison | Outcome |
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Runners | Barefoot | Shoes | Reduced risk of injury |
Runners | Barefoot | Shoes | Reduced risk of Injury |
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Joggers | unshod | shod | injury |
AND produces results with all search terms. Use AND to join different concepts. AND will narrow a search. e.g. barefoot AND shod will look for articles that contain both words.
OR produces results with either search term. Use OR to join synonyms. OR will expand a search: e.g. barefoot OR unshod will look for articles that contain either word.
Use "quotation marks" to search for a phrase. "Running injuries" will look for the two words directly adjacent together. Running injuries will look for each word individually anywhere in the article.
Capturing more with truncation
Consider the forms of the word injury: injury, injuries, injured...
We can over this by searching for running injur*. The * looks for any number of characters. It will look not only for injury, but injuries, injured etc...
runners | Barefoot | Shoes | Reduced risk of Injury while Running | |||
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runn* or jogg* | AND | barefoot OR unshod | AND | shoes OR shod | AND | injur* |