Running may actually protect against osteoarthritis, keep joints healthy
BY CHRISTIE ASCHWANDEN
THE WASHINGTON POST
In an analysis recently published in the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Williams calculated rates of osteoarthritis and hip replacement among participants in his studies and found that runners were approximately half as likely as walkers to develop osteoarthritis or need a hip replacement. Furthermore, runners who ran the most had the lowest risk of osteoarthritis.
“There’s a perception out there that somehow you’re wearing out your joints if you’re out there running,” Williams says, but the thousands of runners in his study show this just isn’t so. “I’ve recruited people who were doing 95 or 115 km per week, and we’ve followed them over time,” he says. “If there had been an effect, we would have seen it.”
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