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A 2-Year Prospective Cohort Study of Overuse Running Injuries: The Runners and Injury Longitudinal Study (TRAILS)

Overview of attention for article published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine, May 2018
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Title
A 2-Year Prospective Cohort Study of Overuse Running Injuries: The Runners and Injury Longitudinal Study (TRAILS)
Published in
The American Journal of Sports Medicine, May 2018
DOI 10.1177/0363546518773755
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Authors

Stephen P. Messier, David F. Martin, Shannon L. Mihalko, Edward Ip, Paul DeVita, D. Wayne Cannon, Monica Love, Danielle Beringer, Santiago Saldana, Rebecca E. Fellin, Joseph F. Seay

Abstract

The National Center for Injury Prevention and Control, noting flaws in previous running injury research, called for more rigorous prospective designs and comprehensive analyses to define the origin of running injuries. To determine the risk factors that differentiate recreational runners who remain uninjured from those diagnosed with an overuse running injury during a 2-year observational period. Cohort study; Level of evidence, 2. Inclusion criteria were running a minimum of 5 miles per week and being injury free for at least the past 6 months. Data were collected at baseline on training, medical and injury histories, demographics, anthropometrics, strength, gait biomechanics, and psychosocial variables. Injuries occurring over the 2-year observation period were diagnosed by an orthopaedic surgeon on the basis of predetermined definitions. Of the 300 runners who entered the study, 199 (66%) sustained at least 1 injury, including 73% of women and 62% of men. Of the injured runners, 111 (56%) sustained injuries more than once. In bivariate analyses, significant ( P ≤ .05) factors at baseline that predicted injury were as follows: Short Form Health Survey-12 mental component score (lower mental health-related quality of life), Positive and Negative Affect Scale negative affect score (more negative emotions), sex (higher percentage of women were injured), and knee stiffness (greater stiffness was associated with injury); subsequently, knee stiffness was the lone significant predictor of injury (odds ratio = 1.18) in a multivariable analysis. Flexibility, quadriceps angle, arch height, rearfoot motion, strength, footwear, and previous injury were not significant risk factors for injury. The results of this study indicate the following: (1) among recreational runners, women sustain injuries at a higher rate than men; (2) greater knee stiffness, more common in runners with higher body weights (≥80 kg), significantly increases the odds of sustaining an overuse running injury; and (3) contrary to several long-held beliefs, flexibility, arch height, quadriceps angle, rearfoot motion, lower extremity strength, weekly mileage, footwear, and previous injury are not significant etiologic factors across all overuse running injuries.

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Unknown 561 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 92 16%
Student > Bachelor 76 14%
Student > Ph. D. Student 59 11%
Researcher 42 7%
Other 36 6%
Other 94 17%
Unknown 162 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Sports and Recreations 128 23%
Nursing and Health Professions 81 14%
Medicine and Dentistry 70 12%
Engineering 17 3%
Social Sciences 9 2%
Other 53 9%
Unknown 203 36%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 257. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 21 January 2024.
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#142,344
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Outputs from The American Journal of Sports Medicine
#44
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#3,179
of 343,930 outputs
Outputs of similar age from The American Journal of Sports Medicine
#4
of 72 outputs
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