8 out 10 Active Runners Will Suffer Injury in Their Career
If the highly-acclaimed British Journal of Sports Medicine and my little old informal – and wholly unscientific – survey are an indication, runners hoping to remain injury-free face pretty stiff odds.
You heard that right. I put my research methods in the same sentence as the British Journal of Sports Medicine. Why? In a story about red flags that runners raise for health insurers, the New York Times cited one of their studies that “found rates of injury to the lower extremities were as high as 79 percent in long-distance runners.” (more…)