RRI4 - End of recruitment

The Sports Medicine Research Laboratory (LIH) has launched a new large study on running. This study is the first to investigate the running technique and the risk of injury in a cohort of over 800 runners! This is one of the largest groups of runners observed over a period of several months. The aim of the study is to identify the influence of the damping properties of the running shoes, the body weight, as well as the running technique on the risk of injury.

The recruitment phase is completed now. More than 870 participants were included in the study. The latter will finish at the end of July 2018. The study conclusions will be available on this site by the end of the year.

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Coaches, sports instructors, physiotherapists and doctors have the possibility to follow (more information) their team and/or athletes. They can coordinate training and intensity personally and monitor their athletes.

It is possible to create own groups, custom reports, have individual and global looks on the training program, rating of perceived exertion and possible injuries, pains or illnesses of their athletes.  

Risk indicators take into account all the details you encode to warn the athlete in case of high injury risks. There are 7 different indicators, that indicate through green, yellow or red dots if you are exposed to higher risk of sustaining an injury: 

- Consecutive sessions at high intensity

- Consecutive days without rest

- Repetitive pains

- Current injury length

- Recurrent injury

- Participation in a competition while being injured

- Concussion 

 

The Health-Index is calculated based on your activities during the last 7 days and enables you to check whether you have reached the minimum of the international recommendations for physical activity. All activities that last 10 minutes or less, as well as those with an intensity inferior to 3 will not be taken into consideration for the calculation of the Health-Index. Your load will thus be calculated by the product of the intensity and total duration of the activity. You should reach at least 150 minutes of physical activities with moderate intensity, or 75 minutes with vigorous intensity, or a mix of both, per week.

Signaling injuries and pains in your personal calendar are of great importance while planning your training sessions.  In the new version of TIPPS, signaling an injury or pain has been simplified and has been based on the OSICS 10.1 (Orchard Sports Injury Classification System).

Access the injury or pain page, by right-clicking on the calendar ("New injury"/"New pain") or by signaling a pain during the upload of your training or competition session. 

- Click on the location of your injury or pain on the figure.
- Click on the injury mechanism on the parent menu.
- You can detail the information of your injury, if known, in the specific and details tabs. 
- Check the injury date and estimate a return date. 
- Check or inform the context, sport and mecanism of the injury.
- Click "Save & close" or "Save & New" if you had a 2nd injury on the same day.

You can monitor your body mass index. Beforehand, you must obviously upload your weight several times, for example once a week (preferably in the morning on an empty stomach and after a bowel movement). Click the "Body measurements" tab in "Health". You will find charts showing the evolution of your weight and your BMI.