Healthy Runner Injury Analysis

Analysing the effects, recovery and prevention assist in determining the extent of what the injury does to individuals participating in the popular well-known sport.

Each year, approximately a quarter of a million physically active young people experience an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, and seventy percent of these ACL injuries will be sustained while engaging in non-contact activities such as sudden deceleration while landing (Begalle et al., 2012). This type of injury is grossly detrimental not only on the occasion in which it occurs but also for the subsequent years to come. The majority of individuals who injure their ACL also go on to either, re-injure that same ACL, or injure the opposite knee. Furthermore, our bodies are put in tremendously vulnerable planes of motion during sporting events, especially during activities such as, basketball, football, or soccer. In this day

When an individual signs up to join the high school football team, he or she should be very aware of the physical toll it can have on your body. Injuries occur in very many circumstances. Though very common, nobody expects to get injured, including myself. I figured I was immune to a major injury, however that all changed very quickly one friday night.

In her article, “High School ACL Injury Rates”, Dawn Comstock shows that in 2009, about sixty percent, of all sports surgeries involve the knee; within the sixty percent, about fifty percent of the knee surgeries are ACL reconstructions. Sports that could have a higher tendency for an athlete to tear the ACL are sports that require an athlete to decelerate quickly or need to cut and change direction instantly. For example, an article shows that a high-impact sport has a higher percentage of ACL tears when compared to a low-impact sport, such as football and women’s soccer; football has a forty-one percent ACL injury rate while women’s soccer only has nineteen percent. Not only does the level of impact effect the likelihood of ACL injury, but the gender of the athlete as well. When looking at women’s and men’s soccer, men have a merely thirteen percent ACL injury rate because their physical structure along with their techniques when doing certain exercises.

Female participation in competitive athletics has increased significantly in recent years. Compared to their male counterparts, they are at a 2 to 10 times greater risk for ACL injury (Edward et al, 2015, p. 368) There are two main mechanisms for an ACL injury: Contact, and non-contact. 70% of all reported ACL injuries are non-contact in nature, whereas the remaining 30% involve contact from an outside force such as an opposing player, a goalpost, or another object on the field or court (Silvers, 2009, p.83).

It was determined that there 83 (9%) knees with radiographic OA and 20 (2%) knees with symptomatic OA. There was an association found between hours per day spent doing heavy physical activity and risk for radiographic knee OA with the unadjusted analyses. In those participating in ≥4 hours/day heavy physical activity, the OR for men was 6.4 (95% CI 1.4-30) and 5.1 (95% CI 0.9-29) for women. An increase in risk was not observed in the moderate and light physical activity groups. This association increased further when adjusting for sex, age, BMI, weight loss, knee injury, and smoking. When adjusting for these variables, the OR increased to 7.0 (95% CI 2.4-20) with a P < 0.0002. When adjusting for sex, females participating in ≥4 hours/day heavy physical activity had the greater OR than males. Females had an OR of 9.0 (95% CI 1.7-48) and males had an OR of 7.0 (95% CI 1.7-29). It was also found that ≥3 hours of habitual physical activity per day lead to an OR of 5.3 (95% CI 1.2-24) with a P < 0.001 in symptomatic knee OA. These results lead to the conclusion that heavy physical activity is associated with an increased risk of

People throughout history have always embraced a healthy lifestyle for a well nourished and fit body. Countering this lifestyle, injury, injury has always conflicted people throughout their quest for a healthy lifestyle. Most people don't know that these are avoidable through common knowledge and experience. When people want to pursue a healthy lifestyle, people sometimes underestimate the necessary knowledge needed to succeed. Consequently a common injury from these occurrences can range from common sprains, billowing, paralysis and death. More importantly, knowing what to do and how doing it correctly can be the difference in success and long term injury/damage e. Furthermore, saving yourself can be as simple as learning

The ability to conduct the studies was very difficult as the studies depend on extraneous variables such as; the type of running surface, the type of footwear, the foot-strike and gait pattern, age, gender, BMI, and the number of miles ran by an athlete, these factors all influence knee damage differently. It is also difficult to perform studies on OA due to its reliance on time. The growth of OA takes many years and has to be closely monitored. Selection bias is another limitation of the literature, since all participants in the studies were healthy with no history of injury. Athletes who develop osteoarthritic symptoms often stop running and opt to participate in lower impact activities (Hansen, English, & Willick, 2012). Furthermore, the majority of the studies were conducted on experienced runners, which is likely not representative of the larger population. Further studies are needed in order to examine the effects of footwear and gait pattern on performance and injury

The majority of the population is being encouraged to increase recreational activity in order to decrease risk of cardiovascular disease and osteoporosis. However, long-term physical activity and the risk of developing chronic injuries such as osteoarthritis (OA) are still unclear. Several studies have examined the effects weight-bearing exercise has on the musculoskeletal system, but results are conflicting. The purpose of this retrospective cohort study was to investigate radiologic differences in the lower extremity (hips and knees) among ex-elite middle- and long-distance runner and tennis players.

The best athletes must practice their skills repeatedly until it becomes second nature. How is it that an athlete can perform jumps and pivot landing over and over without injury, but attempt a maneuver one more time and tear their ACL? Current teaching suggests that the ACL will experience an injury from a one extreme load as opposed to repeated loads (4, 10). Lipps et al. (10) hypothesized that the amount of pivot landings needed to achieve acl failure, was not affected by the degree of the external load placed on the knee joint during pivot landing. Their result from the test data rejected their proposed hypothesis. When testing cadaver knees under 4 times that of body weight eight out of the ten knees failed. The mean standard deviation

The first diagnosis believe the doctor would look at, is Runner’s Knee. It’s the basic inflammation and pain of the knee joint from overuse and/or running on cement. Some genetic problems like flat feet, hip mobility and structure and body weight could also be a reason for the pain, but fall under the same diagnosis as runner’s knee. An inflamed sac of fluid that is used to cushion the knee while it moves could be causing the pain due to inflammation, called bursitis may be another concern. A patellar dislocation could also be the fault from having a knee that keeps slipping off its track causing pain and swelling. A meniscus or ligament tear cause by joint catching of the cartilage or ligament getting stuck may also be an issue, which could

Demands placed upon the body during moderate-to-vigorous exercise as seen with running seem to produce endless health benefits. However, vertical forces on joints may be excessively demanding and could cause cartilage injury, leading to OA.3 Thirty million individuals participate in marathons each year with older women being the majority of new participants. Previous studies have looked at the effects of marathon running on knee joints by use of MRI. Studies have shown no significant MRI changes before or after marathon runners but do suggest that previous injury may elicit degenerative

There is a debate among scientists as to whether barefoot or shod conditions are more beneficial to a runner. Yan, et al, 2012 carried out a systematic review comparing the effects barefoot and shod conditions, their aim was to clarify the effects of shoes on the most generally used variables associated with impact analysis of the lower limb. They concluded that there was insufficient evidence to draw an overall conclusion as to the benefits of shoes as they found conflicting results within the literature. Yan et al, suggested that greater attention to the standards of reporting biomechanical analysis’ and use of high quality data collection methods will help advance this field of research.

Specifically, runners were chosen if they presented with a unilateral chronic overuse injury consisting of patellofemoral pain syndrome, iliotibial band syndrome, shin splints, plantar fasciitis, and tendinopathies with a duration of greater than three months. Additionally, the runners had to be between 18 and 60 and run more than 20 miles per week. Besides this, if any of the following criteria were met the runners were excluded: history of surgery to lower extremities and lumbar spine, signs or symptoms suggestive of an acute injury, any parallel therapies including physiotherapy, insoles, nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or corticosteroid injections during the previous 6 months. Upon screening for these criteria, a total of 50 men and 49 women partook in the study.

Injuries play a big role in an athlete's career and his or her overall health, although minor injuries are often nothing to worry about they can lead to something serious especially if the injury is repeatedly being aggravated. scrapes, cuts, bruises, and broken bones are all things to worry about. When a player is injured he or she is losing play time and money and why risk this when there is small but giant steps that can be taken to prevent injuries. But brain injuries are something much more serious even if the player says not to worry because something worse than losing playtime is losing your life. Albert C. hergenroeder has written an article on preventing sports injuries, he says that there are 3 million sports injuries among kids around