Clinical Relevance: These results suggest that practitioners may want to address impact loading in their treatment of injured runners, especially in those with patellofemoral pain and plantar fasciitis
2020
Impact-Related Ground Reaction Forces Are More Strongly Associated With Some Running Injuries Than Others
Scholarcy highlights
- Inconsistent associations have been reported for impact-related ground reaction force variables and running injuries when grouping all injuries together
- A total of 125 runners presenting with patellofemoral pain, tibial bone stress injury, plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinopathy, or iliotibial band syndrome and 65 healthy controls completed an instrumented treadmill assessment at a self-selected speed
- vertical average, vertical average and instantaneous, and vertical stiffness at initial loading were significantly higher in the overall injured versus control groups
- Impact variables were significantly higher when assessing the injured group as a whole. These findings were driven by specific injury groups, highlighting the importance of taking an injury-specific approach to biomechanical risk factors for running injury
- Clinical Relevance: These results suggest that practitioners may want to address impact loading in their treatment of injured runners, especially in those with patellofemoral pain and plantar fasciitis
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