HOW many times have you been told by non-athletes that running is bad for your knees? Now, you can retort that it categorically is not, thanks to a major new study in Arthritis Care and Research, the journal of the American College of Rheumatology.
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Knee pain: inverse link with regular running
Although the researchers, who were based at four US hospitals, hypothesised that “a history of leisure running may increase the risk for knee symptoms and ROA [radiographic evidence of arthritis], even at lower levels”, the results of their trial involving 2637 participants, all of whom underwent knee X-rays, suggested otherwise.