A prospective study on time to recovery in 254 injured novice runners.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

Describe the diagnoses and the time to recovery of running-related injuries in novice runners.

Design

Prospective cohort study on injured runners.

Method

This paper is a secondary data analysis of a 933-person cohort study (DANO-RUN) aimed at characterizing risk factors for injury in novice runners. Among those sustaining running-related injuries, the types of injuries and time to recovery is described in the present paper. All injured runners were diagnosed after a thorough clinical examination and then followed prospectively during their recovery. If they recovered completely from injury, time to recovery of each injury was registered.

Results

A total of 254 runners were injured. The proportion of runners diagnosed with medial tibial stress syndrom

SUBMITTER: Nielsen RO 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4055729 | biostudies-literature | 2014

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature