{"id":411,"date":"2002-12-23T18:11:29","date_gmt":"2002-12-23T17:11:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/?p=411"},"modified":"2025-08-01T08:37:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-01T08:37:09","slug":"guide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/articles\/guide.htm","title":{"rendered":"Injury guide &#8211; Troubleshooters&#8217; Guide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Welcome to the Injury Guide<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>This section will provide you with a guide to where the sites are for the most common running injuries. See also <a title=\"The 5 Most Common Running Injuries\" href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/thebig5\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The BIG 5<\/a> for a run down on the 5 most common running injuries, providing by Teri Burgess, Resident Physiotherapist from <strong><span style=\"color: #333366;\">Time-to-Run <\/span> <\/strong><a title=\"Cape Town Running\" href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.co.za\/capetown\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"> Cape Town<\/a> (South Africa)<\/p>\n<p>View the articles under the <a title=\"Injury and Treatment section\" href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Injury and Treatment section<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/articles\/reduce-injury.htm\">To reduce injury risk, you need to minimise impact<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/articles\/treatment-approach.htm\">Injury Treatment Approaches<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/articles\/legcramps.htm\">Leg &amp; Foot Cramps<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/training\/water-running\/water.htm\">Water Running<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/articles\/injurygift.htm\">The Gift of an Injury<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/articles\/prevention.htm\">Injury prevention tips<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/articles\/predictor.htm\">The best predictors of injury<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/articles\/comeback.htm\">The Comeback from Injury<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/thebig5\/\">The BIG 5 &#8211; the five most Common Running Injuries<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/thebig5\/achilles.htm\">Achilles tendonitis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/thebig5\/runnersknee.htm\">Runner&#8217;s Knee &#8211; Chondromalacia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/thebig5\/itb.htm\">iliotibial band (ITB) syndrome<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/thebig5\/plantar-fasciitis.htm\">Plantar fasciitis<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/thebig5\/shinsplints.htm\">Shinsplints<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Recurrent Hamstring injuries (a.k.a. the problem hamstring)<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/hamstring\/index.htm\">Hamstring injuries<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/hamstring\/mechanism.htm\">Mechanism of injury<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/hamstring\/treatment.htm\">Treatment of recurrent hamstring strains<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Author: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/theed\/\">Gavin Doyle<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>image credit: Running Injuries by Stephen Granger<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1080,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[20,64],"class_list":["post-411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles","category-featured","tag-common","tag-running-injuries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=411"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1334,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/411\/revisions\/1334"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1080"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.time-to-run.com\/injuries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}