{"id":17057,"date":"2021-12-08T13:00:18","date_gmt":"2021-12-08T13:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/squad\/?p=17057"},"modified":"2021-12-08T13:00:18","modified_gmt":"2021-12-08T13:00:18","slug":"can-you-get-injured-from-running","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/running\/can-you-get-injured-from-running\/","title":{"rendered":"Can You Get Injured From Running?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Running is one of the most popular ways, not only to lose weight and stay fit but also to maintain overall wellness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although running has many benefits, there arex some disadvantages to overdoing it and doing bad running practices, which can lead to unwanted injuries that can affect your everyday life.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Over <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4473093\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">40 million Americans<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> run regularly, and this data goes to show that running is, in fact, popular, even if you can get injured at times. <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC4338213\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">80% of all the injuries<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> that happen because of running are due to repetitive stress from the force you exert on your knees, legs, calves, heels, and other body parts.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is possible to get injured when running, and here is a list of the injuries that you might experience if you run too much or do it the wrong way:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Achilles tendinitis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This injury refers to inflammation of the tendon that connects your calf to your heel. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">And it may happen if you suddenly increase your running distance and intensity. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Y<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ou will know if you are experiencing Achilles if you feel symptoms like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Swelling along your Achilles tendon<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Limited range of motion when you flex your foot towards your shin<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pain in your lower leg above your heel<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Runner\u2019s knee or patellofemoral syndrome<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This common injury refers to pain in front of your knee. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a common injury in any sport that involves a lot of running or jumping. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The common symptoms are:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pain felt on the kneecap<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pain that gets worse when climbing stairs, jumping and squatting<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The pain ranges from mild to severe pain<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Hamstring injuries<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hamstring strains are common if you do not stretch your muscles before doing sprints. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Experiencing hamstring strains is not that common for distance runners. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If you have a hamstring injury, you may experience symptoms like:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Pain in the back of your upper leg<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Stiffness or weakness in your hamstring<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Running is one of the most popular ways, not only to lose weight and stay fit but also to maintain overall wellness. Although running has many benefits, there arex some disadvantages to overdoing it and doing bad running practices, which can lead to unwanted injuries that can affect your everyday life.\u00a0 Over 40 million Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":17115,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[706],"tags":[707,1304],"class_list":["post-17057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-running","tag-running","tag-running-injuries"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17057\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.healthymale.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}