Segment Coordination Variability Differs by Years of Running Experience.

ABSTRACT: Running is a popular activity that results in high rates of overuse injury, with less-experienced runners becoming injured at higher rates than their more-experienced peers. Although measures of joint kinematics and kinetics and ground reaction forces have been associated with overuse running injuries, similar differences across levels of running experience have not been found. Because running is a motor skill that may develop with experience, an analysis of segment coordination and its variability could provide additional insight into why injury incidence decreases with increasing experience.

Purpose

The purpose of this study was to determine if less-experienced runners have different segment coordination and lower segment coordination variability compared with their more-experienc

SUBMITTER: Hafer JF 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7577285 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature