Open AccessSegment Coordination Variability Differs by Years of Running Experience
Author(s) -
Jocelyn F. Hafer,
Jillian Peacock,
Ronald F. Zernicke,
Cristine Agresta
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
medicine and science in sports and exercise
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.703
H-Index - 224
eISSN - 1530-0315
pISSN - 0195-9131
DOI - 10.1249/mss.0000000000001913
Subject(s) - motor coordination , physical medicine and rehabilitation , sagittal plane , treadmill , ground reaction force , physical therapy , psychology , kinematics , medicine , anatomy , physics , classical mechanics , psychiatry
Running is a popular activity that results in high rates of overuse injury, with less-experienced runners becoming injured at higher rates than their more-experienced peers. Although measures of joint kinematics and kinetics and ground reaction forces have been associated with overuse running injuries, similar differences across levels of running experience have not been found. Because running is a motor skill that may develop with experience, an analysis of segment coordination and its variability could provide additional insight into why injury incidence decreases with increasing experience.