of injury. But the instabilities that have developed over the years still need to be addressed. The correct prescription of exercise will ensure that the legs and core muscles become stronger, more stable and evenly balanced. This will add greatly
package. With groin-related injuries, this needs to address the strength of the muscles around the lumbar spine, abdomen and hip (particularly the inner thigh or adductor muscles). With chronic groin injuries, one of the most common treatment techniques
trainers and make sure you have the correct ones for your gait and if they give enough support - a good running shop will do this for you. You also need to start doing some strength and core work to hold your form when you run further.A general circuit is a
, especially core stability, is valuable. Most runners only strengthen a non-running muscle if their physio tells them to, post-injury. However, the next injury could come from somewhere else. Doing a weekly whole-body exercise such as rowing, active yoga
, diagnose and fix the basic cause of the injury, whether it is bad shoes, poor nutrition or inadequate preparation before you run. Remember that although your injury may have healed, your cardiovascular fitness and muscle strength won't be what it was before
) or neglected (understretched, understrengthened), they’ll complain. And the result could be one of the two most chronic, hard-to-heal injuries a runner can face – namely, plantar fasciitis or Achilles tendinitis. To avoid the dreaded ‘itises’ it helps to first
In the mid-1970s, Runner's World Medical Editor George Sheehan, M.D., confirmed that he was hardly the only runner beset by injuries: a poll of the magazine's readers revealed that 60 per cent reported chronic problems. To describe himself
ASICS Pro Team Physiotherapist Sarah Connors recently joined us for a webchat on beating injury. Catch up on the highlights here.Sarah is a chartered physiotherapist who has specialised in treating track and field athletes for the past 20 years
barbell. Oops.I became obsessed with what the human knee can and cannot do when one of mine shut down after a couple of days of modest runs over a nearby hill. The technical name for my injury was patellofemoral pain syndrome, otherwise known as PFPS
