Subjective Assessment of a Runner

Original Editor - Mariam Hashem

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Introduction

Running is a popular sport. Running is an acceptable and well-known choice of health, sports and leisure activity. It is well promoted and highly desirable by many people. Endurance running has benefits on body mass, body fat, resting heart rate and cholesterol levels.

Running puts specific high loads and demands on joints and soft tissue. 25% of long-distance runners are injured, and about half experience an injury that interferes with their activities and cause restrictions for a period of time.

The incidence of running-related injuries (RRI), ranges from 18.2% to 92.4%, with a prevalence rate ranging from 6.8 to 59 injuries per 1,000 hours of training.

Running-related injuries (RRI) is defined as a musculoskeletal ailment that is attributed to running and that causes a restriction of running speed, distance, duration, or frequency for at least 1 week. These injuries are usually induced by overuse and repeated musculoskeletal microtrauma. They are influenced by several risk factors such as personal characteristics of the runner, training overload (volume, overall weekly distance) and running experience.

A systematic review showed the overall injury rate was 20.8 injuries per 100 female runners and 20.4 injuries per 100 male runners

Subjective History Considerations

Types of Running

Different types of running yield different characteristics and various considerations. When asking about the type of running, it's good to know the running ground, gears, type of shoes and the rhythm of running.

Specific shoes are important to protect the foot structure and provide better gripping.

Road running

Trail running: the dynamics differ to the type of trail. The rhythm tends to be slower in long, sandy roads or long dirt roads. Mountainous or local trails involving uneven surfaces or grounds changing cadence rapidly and step rate, unlike the road run where the cadence would remain similar throughout the run. Running uphill and downhill create different loading. Side to side movement might be expected when they are climbing unlike on the road.

Treadmill running: the surface is smoother compared to road and more bouncy.

Track running: track athletes often do warm-ups in the opposite direction of the running to avoid muscle shortening on the one side if they're leaning into the corners the whole time. different shoes. Track shoes have very little to no cushioning, they have studs underneath for gripping. Track runners generally are going to be your faster athletes with a very different running style. They mostly run on their toes with high power needed.

Triathlons: often the aspect of running can be a road. however, they still have two other disciplines.: running is just going to be a small aspect of their full week. Balance is important and also rest which could be an easy form of one of the three sports.

Pace

Refers to the average speed. Usually could be tracked on a smartphone or suing a Fitness band.

• Average runner tends to be 5.30 minutes/m km
• Medium runner five, 5:40 to six to 6:30 minutes
• Slower athlete where they're kind of 6:30, 7 minutes and above

Tracking can help when the athlete is returning to running after an injury to compare their speed before running as a baseline.