Injury guide - Troubleshooters' Guide - common injuries

Welcome to the Injury Guide

This section will provide you with a guide to where the sites are for the most common running injuries. See also The BIG 5 for a run down on the 5 most common running injuries, providing by Teri Burgess, Resident Physiotherapist from Time-to-Run Cape Town (South Africa)

View the articles under the Injury and Treatment section:

• To reduce injury risk, you need to minimise impact
• Injury Treatment Approaches
• Leg & Foot Cramps
• Water Running
• The Gift of an Injury
• Injury prevention tips
• The best predictors of injury
• The Comeback from Injury

The BIG 5 - the five most Common Running Injuries

•    Achilles tendonitis
•    Runner's Knee - Chondromalacia
•    iliotibial band (ITB) syndrome
•    Plantar fasciitis
•    Shinsplints

Recurrent Hamstring injuries (a.k.a. the problem hamstring)

•   Hamstring injuries
•   Mechanism of injury
•   Treatment of recurrent hamstring strains

View the articles under the Injury and Treatment section:

• To reduce injury risk, you need to minimise impact
• Injury Treatment Approaches
• Leg & Foot Cramps
• Water Running
• The Gift of an Injury
• Injury prevention tips
• The best predictors of injury
• The Comeback from Injury