Incidence of Injuries in Street Runners and Associated Factors: A Systematic Review

Abstract

The objective of the present study was to verify the incidence of injuries in street runners within a systematic review identifying the profile of the runners, the main injuries, the control of loads and other variables of the training, if there is professional monitoring, in the perspective of correlating the training characteristics with the incidence of injuries, which are no longer the associated factors. the results of the systematic search that identified a total of 107 articles in the electronic databases SciELO and LILACS and one more by manual search. After selection, the articles due to duplicity were removed, later the ineligible ones. Six studies were selected and included in the present systematic review. Totaling 998 individuals who participated in these 6 studies. The prevalence of injuries in runners found in the present study is worrisome, the main types being muscle strains and the main affected site reported is the knee. Both intrinsic and extrinsic factors were associated with injuries, such as: age, anthropometric characteristics, time of participation in races, characteristics of training and competition, clothing and performance of other activities concurrently with the race.