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Do injury resistant runners have distinct differences in clinical measures compared to recently injured runners?

Dillon, Sarah orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-6659-2606, Burke, Aoife orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1234-8840, Whyte, Enda orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-9458-9498, O'Connor, Siobhán orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-2001-0746, Gore, Shane orcid logoORCID: 0000-0002-3077-2787 and Moran, Kieran orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-2015-8967 (2021) Do injury resistant runners have distinct differences in clinical measures compared to recently injured runners? Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, 53 (9). pp. 1807-1817. ISSN 0195-9131

Abstract
Although lower extremity muscle strength, joint motion and functional foot alignment are commonly used, time-efficient clinical measures that have been proposed as risk factors for running related injuries (RRIs), it is unclear if these factors can distinguish injury-resistance in runners. Purpose: This study compares clinical measures, with consideration of sex, between recently injured runners (3 months to 1 year prior), those with a high level of injury resistance who have been uninjured for at least 2 years, and never-injured runners. Methods: Averaged bilateral values and between-limb symmetry angles of lower limb isometric muscle strength, joint motion, navicular drop and Foot Posture Index (FPI) were assessed in a cohort of recreational runners and their injury history was recorded. Differences in clinical measures between injury groupings were examined, with consideration of sex. Results: Of the 223 runners tested, 116 had been recently injured, 61 had been injured >2 years ago and were deemed to have acquired re-injury resistance, and 46 were never injured. Plantar flexion was greater in both recently injured (P = .001) and acquired re-injury resistance runners (P = .001). compared to never-injured runners. Recently injured runners displayed higher hip abduction strength compared to never-injured runners (P = .019, ꞃ² = .038, small effect size). There were no statistically significant differences in the remaining measures between the injury groupings. With the exception of FPI, there was no interaction between sex and injury grouping for any of the measures. Conclusion: Commonly employed clinical measures of strength, joint motion and functional foot alignment were not superior in injury-resistant runners compared to recently injured runners, questioning their relevance in identifying future injury resistance of runners. Key words: Running injuries, strength, pronation, joint motion.
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Item Type:Article (Published)
Refereed:Yes
Uncontrolled Keywords:Running injuries; strength, pronation; joint motion
Subjects:Medical Sciences > Health
Medical Sciences > Performance
Medical Sciences > Sports sciences
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science and Health > School of Health and Human Performance
Research Institutes and Centres > INSIGHT Centre for Data Analytics
Publisher:American College of Sports Medicine
Official URL:https://dx.doi.org/10.1249/MSS.0000000000002649
Copyright Information:© 2021 American College of Sports Medicine (CC BY-NC)
Funders:Insight SFI Research Centre for Data Analytics, Science Foundation Ireland (SFI) under Grant Number SFI/12/RC/2289_P2, co-funded by the European Regional Development Fund.
ID Code:25480
Deposited On:06 Dec 2021 11:36 by Sarah Dillon . Last Modified 14 Feb 2022 15:09
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