NCT02349373

Focus of a Running Schedule and Risk of Running Injuries

The Focus of a Running Schedule and Its Association With the Risk of Running Injuries? A Randomized Trial.

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 839 (actual)
• Sponsor: Northern Orthopaedic Division, Denmark · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years – 65 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

Running is a natural part of human locomotion and humans have been running for million of years. In modern society, running has become a popular way of exercise and is undertaken by many people worldwide, possibly because it provides a cheap and easily accessible form of exercise, and the positive effects of running on health and fitness are well known. Unfortunately, running is also associated with a high risk of injury. The purpose of this project is to investigate how a running schedule which focuses either on running distance or running speed influence the overall risk of injury and the types of injury sustained in recreational runners.

Detailed description

Trails directed at investigating differences in injury risk in relation to the focus of the running schedule have been conducted without any firm conclusions. People engaged in recreational running or choosing running as a new and active lifestyle needs guidance on which running schedules minimize the injury risk, aiding their chance of an active lifestyle and possibly reversing the increase in people developing a lifestyle disease. To develop running schedules minimizing the risk of injury, an understanding of the mechanisms that the different training variables impose on the human body is necessary. The existing literature on running intensity and the development of injuries show conflicting result. More studies are necessary to ascertain if there is a relationship between the intensity of running. In such studies, it is important to include other training variables in the analysis and to quantify running exposure using an objective method of measuring the relative intensity and absolute volume.

Conditions

• Running Related Injuries

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	An 8 week preconditioning period	Receipt of a weekly running schedule through an online training diary.
BEHAVIORAL	16 week training period	Receipt of a weekly running schedule through an online training diary.

Timeline

• Start date: 2015-04-01
• Primary completion: 2016-03-01
• Completion: 2017-10-01
• First posted: 2015-01-28
• Last updated: 2018-02-06

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark