Running Injuries

by Tim Noakes, Stephen Granger

This book has earned its place as an invaluable handbook of injury prevention and treatment for all runners - whether elite athletes, twice-a-week joggers, athletes at school level or those who run mainly to build fitness for other sports. It is an indispensable guide for coaches, parents and doctors. Newly updated, this popular and trusted book offers the latest research on treating and overcoming running injuries in one easy-to-use volume; new insights into preventing injury, and a checklist of important points to help you run injury-free; revealing analysis of the injury profiles of elite international athletes; a user-friendly diagnostic chart and helpful medical drawings to make it easy to locate and understand your injury; photographs demonstrating the correct way to do stretching exercises; a glossary of terms used when discussing running injuries, and an index.

144 pages, Paperback

First published March 1, 1992

About the author

Timothy David Noakes is a South African professor of exercise and sports science at the University of Cape Town. He has run more than 70 marathons and ultramarathons, and is the author of the running book Lore of Running.

Reviews

[Prashanth Nuggehalli Srinivas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Good book for runners who’re grappling with aches, pains and maladies related to increasing running distances. The first few chapters that explain biomechanics and the anatomy are slightly better than the ones that describe each of the injuries, with notes on symptoms, diagnosis and management.