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- Title
Running Habits and Injury Frequency Following COVID-19 Restrictions in Adolescent Long-Distance Runners.
- Authors
Meyers, Rachel N.; Garcia, Micah C.; Taylor-Haas, Jeffery A.; Long, Jason T.; Rauh, Mitchell J.; Paterno, Mark V.; Ford, Kevin R.; Bazett-Jones, David M.
- Abstract
Purpose: A decline in youth running was observed at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. We investigated whether the resumption of organized running after social distancing restrictions changed running habits or injury frequency in adolescent runners. Methods: Adolescents (age = 16.1 [2.1] y) who participated in long-distance running activities completed an online survey in the Spring and Fall of 2020. Participants self-reported average weekly running habits and whether they sustained an injury during the Fall 2020 season. Poisson regression models and 1-way analysis of variance compared running habits while Fisher exact test compared differences in frequencies of injuries during Fall 2020 among season statuses (full, delayed, and canceled). Results: All runners, regardless of season status, increased weekly distance during Fall 2020. Only runners with a full Fall 2020 season ran more times per week and more high-intensity runs per week compared with their Spring 2020 running habits. There were no differences in running volume or running-related injury frequency among Fall 2020 season statuses. Conclusions: There were no significant differences in running-related injury (RRI) frequency among runners, regardless of season status, following the resumption of cross-country. Health care providers may need to prepare for runners to increase running volume and intensity following the resumption of organized team activities.
- Subjects
HIGH schools; LONG-distance running; SELF-evaluation; ONE-way analysis of variance; PHYSICAL training &; conditioning; HABIT; RUNNING injuries; EPIDEMIOLOGY; REGRESSION analysis; FISHER exact test; COMPARATIVE studies; SEASONS; PSYCHOSOCIAL factors; EXERCISE intensity; DESCRIPTIVE statistics; WOUNDS &; injuries; SOCIAL distancing; STATISTICAL models; COVID-19 pandemic; ELITE athletes; POISSON distribution
- Publication
Pediatric Exercise Science, 2024, Vol 36, Issue 1, p2
- ISSN
0899-8493
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1123/pes.2022-0080