Injury guide – Troubleshooters’ Guide

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

Author: Gavin Doyle

image credit: Running Injuries by Stephen Granger