Abstract
Like any sport, running is affected by biological development, the body process of maturity and degeneration. Each phase of our lives, childhood, adolescence, and old age plays an essential role in this physiological development—lifetime effect. Therefore, to evaluate the development of sports skills, the sports physician must systematically assess the neurological, cognitive, somatic, and psychological functions before classifying a runner or athlete as a sports talent without considering the individual’s maturation phase. For most runners, the passion for running is born after overcoming their own physical limits for the first time. However, some of them will go beyond, dreaming of new physical challenges and, consequently, developing a trigger to adopt a non-stop behavior of faster-increasing training and running to reach their self-imposed goals—the “perfect” scenario for injuries. It may affect children, adolescents, and elderly runners indistinctly, where lower limb injuries are prevalent. The sports physician should be aware of inadequate running program regarding the volume, intensity, frequency of training, and muscle imbalances. Moreover, injuries prevention should identify runner’s biological body development, physical and psychological stress related to running or other sports practice, and its mental balance status—“Forrest Gump” runner’s behavior syndrome”.
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Piedade, S.R., Viana, L.O., Arruda, B.P.L. (2022). Age and Running: Children and Adolescents, Elder People. In: Canata, G.L., Jones, H., Krutsch, W., Thoreux, P., Vascellari, A. (eds) The Running Athlete. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-65064-6_5
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