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The cumulative damage theory of injuries - Running Writings

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I've had injuries on the brain lately.  Why do they happen? My high school's training room had a sign outside that said "Running injury? TOO MUCH, TOO FAR, TOO SOON."  Needless to say, the trainer wasn't very helpful.  But the medical/scientific consensus isn't much more helpful than that.  Overuse injuries are "tissue damage that results from repetitive demand over the course of time" according to emedicine, which is a slightly less harsh wording of the same idea my high school trainer had.  But things are more complicated than that (this is going to become a theme on this blog).  It seems like the rules are always changing--mileage or workouts that were okay last year are problematic this year, or the other way around.  The topic of "why injuries happen" is way too broad to over all at once, but today I'd like to look at one small piece: the process by which damage accumulates.

I've had injuries on the brain lately.  Why do they happen? My high school's training room had a sign outside that said "Running injury? TOO MUCH, TOO FAR, TOO SOON."  Needless to say, the trainer wasn't very helpful.  But the medical/scientific consensus isn't much more helpful than that.  Overuse injuries are "tissue damage that results from repetitive demand over the course of time" according to emedicine, which is a slightly less harsh wording of the same idea my high school trainer had.  But things are more complicated than that (this is going to become a theme on this blog).  It seems li

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