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Running Related Injury Among Novice Runners

NCT02014987 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: EARLY_PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 160

Last updated 2015-04-10

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

About 31% of the Danish population participates regularly in running. The positive health benefits of running have been well documented in the literature. Unfortunately, running has been connected with a high risk of injuries.

Running related injuries can cause a long rehabilitation and may even force the runner to quit running permanently. To ensure that running can be practiced as a safe exercise activity prevention must be considered.

Conditions

  • Treatment Error
  • Overuse Injury

Interventions

BEHAVIORAL

Training programmes

Runners with a high body mass index follow two types of training programmes: 1. a running programme of 3 kilometres per week 2. a running programme 6 kilometres per week The amount of running will be increased with 10 % per week.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • University of Aarhus

    collaborator OTHER

  • Northern Orthopaedic Division, Denmark

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Michael L. Bertelsen, PT · Department of Publich Health, Aarhus University

  • Sten Rasmussen, MD · Northern Orthopaedic Division, Aalborg University Hospital

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Max Age
65 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
Yes

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2013-07-31
Primary Completion
2016-01-31
Completion
2016-01-31

Countries

  • Denmark

Study Locations

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