Running Related Injury Among Novice Runners

Northern Orthopaedic Division, Denmark

Status and phase: Unknown; Early Phase 1

Conditions: Overuse Injury; Treatment Error

Treatments: Behavioral: Training programmes

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02014987

N-20130035

Details and patient eligibility

About

About 31% of the Danish population participates regularly in running. The positive health benefits of running have been well documented in the literature. Unfortunately, running has been connected with a high risk of injuries.

Running related injuries can cause a long rehabilitation and may even force the runner to quit running permanently. To ensure that running can be practiced as a safe exercise activity prevention must be considered.

Full description

Training errors (i.e. excessive volume, sudden change of training routines etc.) are held to be the main reasons to running related injuries. Fortunately, training errors can be avoided as training characteristics (distance, duration, pace) can be controlled by the runner.

In order to avoiding training errors, especially excessive volume many novice runners follow 0-5 kilometres type training programmes. However, limited research has been conducted on the training volume of beginner programs and the risk of running related injuries.

The purpose of this study is to investigate the relationship between the running volume the first 4 weeks of a running regime and the risk of running related injuries among novice runners. The relationship between running volume and running related injuries will be investigated in proportion to their body mass index (BMI).

Enrollment: 160 estimated patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 65 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• both gender between 16-65 years
• no running-training within the last year
• less than 20 hours of sports activity within the last year (in total)
• internet access and mail address
• body mass index between 18.5 - 25 or 30-35
• owns a pair of running shoes

Exclusion criteria

• do not want to use a GPS watch
• unable or unwilling to follow the running regime in 4 consecutive weeks
• previous injury in lower extremity within the last 2 years
• unable to read or understand Danish
• former heart surgery
• known heart surgery
• known lung disease
• diabetes
• current pregnancy
• known tendency to shortness of breath or chest pain with activity
• known tendency to leg pain when walking long distances

Trial design

Primary purpose: Prevention

Allocation: N/A

Interventional model: Single Group Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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160 participants in 1 patient group

Running training programmes

Experimental group

Description:

Runners with a high body mass index are going to follow a training programme of 3 kilometres per week compared to a training programme of 6 kilometres per week. The amount of running will be increased with 10 % per week.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Training programmes