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Injury & Rehab
Injury prevention, phased rehab, pain as a signal, and return to play.
Elias KiptooDoes Jumping Your Longest Run More Than 10 Percent Actually Get You Hurt?
A study of 5,205 runners found overuse injuries often strike from a single session, spiking when one run jumps more than 10 percent past your longest run of the previous month.
Elias KiptooDoes Running With a Higher Cadence Actually Lower Your Injury Risk, or Just Move It Around?
A 2024 Maastricht study is the first to measure what nudging your cadence does to the three tissues runners break most often, and it found cadence is the rare change that protects all of them at once.
Lauryn BrittWhy Do Bones Keep Breaking in the Same Spot? The Stress Fracture Risk Nobody Screens For
A bone stress injury doesn't announce itself with a snap. It starts as a dull, localized ache that shows up earlier in each run, then lingers after, then greets you on the first step of the day. By the time it's a tru…
Lauryn BrittWhy Does Delayed-Onset Muscle Soreness Peak Two Days Later, Not Right After a Hard Workout?
The soreness that arrives 24 to 48 hours after an unfamiliar workout has a name — delayed-onset muscle soreness — and its timing tells you something important about what is actually damaged. For decades, the popular s…
Lauryn BrittWhy Do ACL Injuries Spike in the Days Before a Period? The Ligament Laxity Research
If you tear an ACL without contact, the odds that it happened during a specific window of your menstrual cycle are not random. A body of work stretching back over two decades has found that non-contact ACL ruptures cl…
Lauryn BrittDoes Loading a Tendon With Heavy, Slow Reps Actually Reverse Tendinopathy Better Than Rest?
The old advice for a cranky patellar or Achilles tendon was to stop moving it and wait. The research has quietly buried that idea. Håkan Alfredson's foundational work on chronic Achilles tendinopathy showed that a twe…
Lauryn BrittWhy Your Sprained Ankle Keeps Rolling: The Hidden Sensory Deficit Behind Chronic Instability
The first ankle sprain is bad luck. The fifth one is a system that never relearned where your foot is in space. Roughly 40 percent of people who sprain an ankle once go on to develop chronic ankle instability — the re…
Lauryn BrittWhy Stretching Before a Run Doesn't Prevent Injury (and What Load Management Does)
The belief that a few minutes of static stretching will armor you against pulls and strains has survived decades of locker-room repetition, but the evidence has never supported it. A large systematic review by Lauerse…
Lauryn BrittWhy Do Hamstring Injuries Keep Coming Back? The Eccentric Strength Answer
The hamstring is the most re-injured muscle group in sport, and the reason is not bad luck. Roughly a third of strained hamstrings tear again, most of them inside the first two weeks of return. For years the field ass…
Elias KiptooThe Hidden Cost of Super Shoes: Why Carbon Belongs on Race Day, Not Everyday
The defining shift in distance running over the last decade hasn't been a new training philosophy. It has been the carbon-plated super shoe. By combining hyper-responsive foam with a rigid, curved carbon-fiber plate,…
