Overall and location specific incidence of injuries
| Author, year of publication | Incidence of injuries | Location specific incidence of injuries | ||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Overall | Men (%) | Women (%) | Foot (%) | Ankle (%) | Lower leg (%) | Knee (%) | Upper leg (%) | Hip/pelvis (%) | LEX, not stated (%) | Other sites, not LEX (%) | Other sites, not stated (%) | |
| *Total number of injuries is unknown. | ||||||||||||
| †Overall incidence of stress fractures obtained in this study; the injuries in this study are all stress fractures. | ||||||||||||
| ‡These are all blisters; the exact location of the blisters was not given. | ||||||||||||
| LEX, lower extremity. | ||||||||||||
| Taunton et al, 200319 | 28.0% (236 injuries by 236/840 runners) | 26.3 | 28.7 | 14.0 | 11.0 | 26.7 | 35.2 | 3.4 | 9.7 | |||
| Steinacker et al, 200118 | 46.6% (injuries by 27/58 runners)* during training | 41.6 | 54.5 | 16.6 | 50.0 | 11.1 | 11.1 | 11.2 | ||||
| 43.9% (injuries by 18/41 runners)* during marathon | 38.5 | 53.3 | 11.1 | 16.7 | 33.4 | 16.6 | 22.2 | |||||
| Lun et al, 200412 | 79.3% (injuries by 69/87 runners) | 79.5 | 79.1 | 15.0 | 3.9 | 9.0 | 7.2 | 9.0 | 5.0 | 3.9 | ||
| Wen et al, 199821 | 32.9% (84 injuries by 84/255 runners) | 16.7 | 10.7 | 32.1 | 31.0 | 3.6 | 5.9 | |||||
| Bennell et al, 19969 | 31.6% (9 injuries by 6/19 runners)† | 20.0 | 44.4 | 100 | ||||||||
| Satterthwaite et al, 199616 | 92.4% (2671 injuries by 846/916 runners) during or immediately after marathon | 22.6 | 16.0 | 8.8 | 28.9 | 23.7 | ||||||
| 78.9% (1905 injuries by 723/916 runners) in the 7 days following the marathon | 14.8 | 20.5 | 12.7 | 38.1 | 13.9 | |||||||
| Macera et al, 198914 | 51.5% (injuries by 300/583 runners)* | 52.0 | 49.0 | 22.0 | 24.0 | 54.0 | ||||||
| Walter et al, 198920 | 48.4% (747 new+ recurrent injuries by 620/1281 runners) | 49.3 | 45.5 | 15.7 | 15.0 | 12.0 | 26.6 | 7.2 | 8.8 | 10.6 | 4.0 | |
| 26.0% (427 new injuries by 333/1281 runners) | 26.8 | 23.3 | 18.5 | 16.6 | 14.8 | 25.5 | 8.2 | 8.7 | 5.4 | 2.3 | ||
| Bovens et al, 198910 | 84.9% (174 injuries by 62/73 runners) | 5.7 | 12.1 | 32.2 | 24.7 | 6.3 | 11.5 | 7.5 | ||||
| 58.0% in 15 km phase | ||||||||||||
| 60.0% in 25 km phase | ||||||||||||
| 67.0% in 42 km phase | ||||||||||||
| Lysholm & Wiklander, 198713 | 57.1% (18 injuries by 16/28 runners) | 33.3 | 66.6% | |||||||||
| Kretsch et al, 198411 | 92.0% (injuries by 422/459 runners)* of whom 11% had injuries for more than 1 day after the marathon | |||||||||||
| Macera et al, 199123 | 21.6% (injuries by 75/347 runners)* in 5 and 10 km race | 24.0 | 15.8 | |||||||||
| 35.2% (injuries by 57/162 runners)* in the marathon | 34.2 | 43.8 | ||||||||||
| 26.1% (injuries by 133/509 runners)* in both races | 28.1 | 19.7 | ||||||||||
| Jakobsen et al, 198922 | 19.4% (193 injuries by 161/831 runners) | 6.9 | 10.8 | 16.6 | 26.9 | 11.4 | 27.4‡ | |||||
| Maughan & Miller, 198324 | 27.2% (122 injuries by 122/449 runners) | 39.3 | 4.9 | 13.1 | 32.0 | 7.4 | 3.3 | |||||
| Nicholl & Williams, 198225 | 40.1% (injuries by 97/242 runners)* in half marathon | 39.3 | 42.2 | |||||||||
| 65.1% (injuries by 203/312 runners)* in marathon | 65.7 | 58.6 | ||||||||||