Follow these time-tested principles and you’ll spend more time on the roads and less in rehab.
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Proffesor Noakes: 10 Laws of Injuries – volume 2
6) Treat the cause Because all running injuries have a cause, it follows that an injury can never be cured until the causative factors are eliminated. Thus surgery, physiotherapy, cortisone injections, drug therapy, chiropractic manipulations and homeopathic remedies are likely to fail if they do not correct all the genetic, environmental and training factors causing the injury. 7) Complete rest is seldom the most appropriate treatment If an injury is…
Professor Noakes: 10 Laws of Injuries
Preventing injuries is all about understanding why they happen. It serves no purpose to diagnose the injury correctly if no attention is paid to the cause, otherwise the injury is likely to recur, possibly more seriously than before. Who better to explain further than the ‘running professor,’ Tim Noakes? Here are his 10 laws of injuries. 1) Running injuries are not an act of God In fact, they result from…
Injury Prevention Law #7: Don’t Race Or Do Speedwork Too Often
Researchers have found a correlation between injuries and frequent race efforts.
Injury Prevention Law #1: Know Your Limits
It’s easy to get injured; anyone can do it. Just run too much. “I firmly believe that every runner has an injury threshold,” says physical therapist and biomechanist Irene Davis, Ph.D., from the University of Delaware’s Running Injury Clinic.
Injury Prevention Law #3: Consider Shortening Your Stride
This comes as a bit of a surprise because it’s not discussed much in running circles.
Injury Prevention Law #8: Cross-Training Provides Active Rest and Recovery
Running is hard on the body, so its no surprise that running takes its toll on our muscles and joints. But what’s the answer?
Injury Prevention Law #2: Listen to Your Body
This is perhaps the oldest and most-widely-repeated advice for avoiding injuries, and still the best:
Up Your Immunity
Colds and coughs raise their nasty heads during peak training. Here’s how to avoid them.
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