Musculoskeletal injuries in the knee region in amateur street runners

Abstract

Street running is a sporting practice considered a sociocultural and contemporary phenomenon,
however, runners are exposed to risks associated with inappropriate movement or training, resulting in
muscle injuries causing pains and physical limitations among runners. The objective was to describe
the characteristics associated to the occurrence of musculoskeletal injuries in street corridors in the
amateur mode of a capital of the northern region of Brazil. It is a cross-sectional descriptive study
carried out with 63 street corridors. Data were collected through the application of the Referred
Morbidity Survey and information about the training routine. The results showed that 66.7% of the
participants were males, 36.6% with ages between 30-39 years, the most frequent injuries in these
corridors were acute nonspecific pain (37.1%), mainly in the knee (27%), with the majority of injuries
being caused by the endurance race (72.2%) and without qualified supervised training (64%). The
participants presented a mechanism of injury associated with the endurance running and with the knee
standing out as the most prevalent anatomical site. A disturbing characteristic was the fact that these
runners had a routine to return to the still symptomatic workouts, which may be associated with the
practice of physical activity without supervised training.