{"id":218360,"date":"2025-07-20T14:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/running-injuries-often-strike-suddenly-not-gradually-study-challenges-understanding-of-overuse-injuries"},"modified":"2025-07-20T14:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-20T19:03:07","slug":"running-injuries-often-strike-suddenly-not-gradually-study-challenges-understanding-of-overuse-injuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/running-injuries-often-strike-suddenly-not-gradually-study-challenges-understanding-of-overuse-injuries","title":{"rendered":"Running injuries often strike suddenly, not gradually: Study challenges understanding of overuse injuries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/running-injuries-often-strike-suddenly-not-gradually-study-challenges-understanding-of-overuse-injuries2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new study from Aarhus University turns our understanding of how running injuries occur upside down. The research project, which is the largest of its kind ever conducted, shows that running-related overuse injuries do not develop gradually over time, as previously assumed, but rather suddenly\u2014often during a single training session. The research is published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur study marks a paradigm shift in understanding the causes of running-related overuse injuries. We previously believed that injuries develop gradually over time, but it turns out that many injuries occur because runners make training errors in a single training session,\u201d explains Associate Professor Rasmus \u00d8. Nielsen from the Department of Public Health at Aarhus University, who is the lead author of the study.<\/p>\n<p>The study followed 5,205 runners from 87 countries over 18 months and shows that injury risk increases exponentially when runners increase their distance in a single training session compared to their longest run in the past 30 days. The longer the run becomes, the higher the injury risk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study from Aarhus University turns our understanding of how running injuries occur upside down. The research project, which is the largest of its kind ever conducted, shows that running-related overuse injuries do not develop gradually over time, as previously assumed, but rather suddenly\u2014often during a single training session. The research is published in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":707,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/707"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}