Running Injury chart

‘Are you living in Niggle City?’ Research on running injury in RTÉ Brainstorm

Submitted on Tuesday, 13/02/2024

Most running injury research has focused only on injuries which are severe enough to cause significant disruptions to training and typically consider pain and time lost from running as the main consequences of injury. However, with extensive focus group data collection and over 150 hours of data analysis, Insight explored runners’ lived experience of injury, allowing researcher to develop the Running Injury Continuum which depicts the progressive and fluctuating process of injury development. Read Aisling Lacey’s piece on the running continuum in RTE Brainstorm