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New Strategy for Injured Runners |
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Our team has just published a study in the March/April edition of the, Journal of Athletic Training, measuring whether runners with knee pain benefit from an intensive hip-strengthening program. We gave injured runners two simple hip strengthening exercises, and within three weeks we found those runners had 40% less pain, less stride-to-stride variability in their movement, and more strength to help them run safely. This study is great news for runners who suffer with chronic knee pain – we’ve shown that strengthening those critical hip muscles helps runners restore a more consistent, predictable pattern of movement, reduce knee pain, and stay on the roster for that next race. Please click on this link to view the exercises: Hip-Research-Strengthening-Exercises.jpg
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