Development of overuse injuries in running - a multidisciplinary approach

This presentation will focus on the first results from a one year prospective cohort study on running-related injuries (RRI) conducted in Gothenburg, Sweden. The study combined biomechanical and epidemiological measures to try to shed light on the associations between possible risk factors (clinical, biomechanical and training-related), and RRI risk. One target was to identify sub-groups of runners having certain characteristics to describe possible differences compared with groups of runners. This is an important step towards understanding how much training load different types of runners can tolerate before sustaining an injury. Moreover, the importance of including a comprehensive baseline screening procedure will be discussed and problematized in the presentation.