What the study found
This article lays out a prevention trial; it does not report whether the exercise programme reduced injuries.
Participants and protocol
The protocol allocated 72 elite Swedish orienteerers to a fourteen-week exercise intervention or control, with repeated injury questionnaires and predefined outcomes.
What this cannot establish
A registered design is not evidence of effectiveness. Do not describe these exercises as proven injury prevention on the basis of this protocol or transfer the regimen automatically to novice runners.
Publication details
- Record
- PubMed 29707231
- Publication types
- research-article
- Source record checked
- 2026-10-18
Publication type and subject indexing describe the record; they are not a quality grade or proof of a benefit. An abstract does not replace a review of the full methods and results.
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