Shoes and running injuries – where are we today? - Tracking injuries

Tracking injuries

After the elimination of the two main suspects, there was the question what other factors are the triggers and why they have not been detected yet. "The field of research has not advanced in the last twenty years. It is time for new ideas," Willem van Mechelen from the University of Amsterdam said. He did his doctorate on the factors leading to running injuries.

For twenty years the parameters that were seen in connection with running injuries had basically remained the same. Only few ones had been added. In the literature different risk factors were suggested, said van Mechelen. But so far only preinjuries were confirmed as risk factors. The studies could not show so far if and how errors in training also had played a role. "But since running injuries are only caused by running training, it is not farfetched that the product of training scope and training intensity has an influence."