Friday, October 1, 2010

High Impact Sports Related Knee Injury

Millions of people engage in running, jogging and walking as form of health exercise. Vigorous exercise has been found to have multiple health benefits including weight loss, prevention of heart disease, therapeutic for diabetes, and to decrease stress symptoms. Still others do these to compete in marathons and other sports events. A common cause for emergencies and chronic pain experienced by health buffs and athletes engaged in these activities is knee injury.

Running, jogging, marathons and other high impact sports can injure the knee. Of the many types of injuries that can possibly happen to the knee joint, overuse injury is probably most common.

For more information: Knee Injury Associated with Running and Marathons

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