@article{ref1,
title="A prospective study on time to recovery in 254 injured novice runners",
journal="PLoS one",
year="2014",
author="Nielsen, Rasmus Oestergaard and Rønnow, Lotte and Rasmussen, Sten and Lind, Martin",
volume="9",
number="6",
pages="e99877-e99877",
abstract="OBJECTIVES: Describe the diagnoses and the time to recovery of running-related injuries in novice runners. <br><br>DESIGN: Prospective cohort study on injured runners. <br><br>METHOD: This paper is a secondary data analysis of a 933-person cohort study (DANO-RUN) aimed at characterizing risk factors for injury in novice runners. Among those sustaining running-related injuries, the types of injuries and time to recovery is described in the present paper. All injured runners were diagnosed after a thorough clinical examination and then followed prospectively during their recovery. If they recovered completely from injury, time to recovery of each injury was registered. <br><br>RESULTS: A total of 254 runners were injured. The proportion of runners diagnosed with medial tibial stress syndrome was 15%, 10% for patellofemoral pain, 9% for medial meniscal injury, 7% for Achilles tendinopathy and 5% for plantar fasciitis. Among the 220 runners (87%) recovering from their injury, the median time to recovery was 71 days (minimum  = 9 days, maximum  = 617 days). <br><br>CONCLUSIONS: Medial tibial stress syndrome was the most common injury followed by patellofemoral pain, medial meniscal injury and Achilles tendinopathy. Half of the injured runners were unable to run 2×500 meters without pain after 10 weeks. Almost 5% of the injured runners received surgical treatment.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1932-6203",
doi="10.1371/journal.pone.0099877",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0099877"
}