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One of the frustrating things about research and practice is how quickly things can change. Something can be considered a key part of rehab, even gold standard and then fall by the wayside as new studies are published.
‘Core stability is a great example of this. Once considered the bedrock of back pain management, now reduced to something we can only say with quotation marks!
This post isn’t about the core but our previous posts on core stability highlight that it doesn’t appear to play a key role in running performance or injury prevention and traditional S&C may be more effective to target the core muscles.
Another area that seems to be moving in and out of favour in running injury management is strength. My bias is that strength is important, and lack of strength may be a factor in injury development however recent research has challenged this. A new study has even suggested ‘recently injured’ runners may be stronger than those that have never been injured?
So what is the role of strength in running injury? Our new video below discusses this and explores some of the latest research in this field.
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