CLINIC
Running related injuries (RRI) are a big issue, with up to 84 per cent of runners experiencing an injury affecting their training each year. Although a high quantity of research has emerged in this area over the past decade, there hasn’t been a huge reduction in injury rates. Could it be that your trainers are increasing your chance of injury?
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SIF.Health
member Chris Kitson is a musculoskeletal therapist, performance coach, owner of Endurance Therapy and Performance as well as a lecturer in sports therapy. Chris is a triathlete himself, and has spent years helping injured athletes get back to peak performance (sif.health).
+ When you look at the stats around common running injury location, you see that they’re most common around the knee, shin, foot and ankle. It would seem logical that what you wear on your feet could be a game changer when it comes to modifying injury risk, but is this right?
Most running injuries stem from overuse. This is where the training load placed on the tissues exceeds their recovery rate, and/or external and internal loading is too high. The forces during running are said to be between 1.5 and eight times bodyweight per step at the level of the foot and ankle, which is quite considerable when we consider the number of repetitions performed per running session.