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Runners World Survey

Discussion in 'Biomechanics, Sports and Foot orthoses' started by admin, Mar 13, 2011.

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  1. admin

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    Runners World magazine (Australia) conducted an online survey of runners. As this is a self selceted sample, it could be considered not representative, but there were some interesting numbers in it. 2362 runners responded (only 37.5% were male!).

    Among the results were:

    Distance run each week:
    <20km 24%
    20-34km 38%
    35-49km 21%
    50-74km 12%
    75-99km 2.5%
    >100km 0.8%

    Injuries in past 12 moths:
    Knee 21.3%
    ITB 12.9%
    Shoulder 6.%
    Plantar fasciitis 8.7%
    Foot 9.7%
    Shin splints 10.5%
    Achilles 9.0%
    Low back 14.5%

    Treatments:
    No treatment 19.2%
    Self treatment 28.4%
    Massage 32.3%
    Podiatrist 11.7%
    Osteopath 7.1%
    Sports Med dr 9.5%
    GP 6.4%
    Physio 38.1%
    Chiropractor 9.4%

    Brand of running shoes:
    adidas 11.0%
    Asics 61.4%
    Brooks 27.7%
    New Balance 11.3%
    Mizuno 9.9%
    Nike 17.3%
    Puma 1.1%
    Reebok 1.3%
    Saucony 6.1%
    Newton 1.1%

    Vibram 0.3%

    What influenced yor descion to buy a certain brand of running shoe:
    Recommendation from a podiatrist 22.4%

    Recommendation from a sales person 45.0%
    Recommendation from another runner 25.7%
    Runners world shoe guide 27.2%
    Advertsiing in runners world 5.9%
    Advertsiing in other magazine 2.5%
    Read about them online 11.4%
    Endorsement by an elite athlete 2.9%
     
  2. DaVinci

    DaVinci Well-Known Member

    INTERESTING!
     
  3. I got a little bit of a chuckle from this one. With all the medial attention (and attention from a few here on Podiatry Arena) about Vibram shoes, and about how great Vibrams are, with Vibrams being more natural and such, and then seeing that runners are over 200 times more likely to be running in Asics brand shoes than in Vibrams. Like I said before.....everyone is talking about the barefoot thing....but virtually no-one is doing it! What a joke!
     
  4. David Wedemeyer

    David Wedemeyer Well-Known Member

    It sure seems that way Kevin doesn't it? I've yet to have one runner in the office who actually runs barefoot, which surprised me given the fervor of that thread on barefoot running. Its not a knock on the adherents to the genre just an observation.

    I need to buy Asics stock immediately, just sayin'!
     
  5. RobinP

    RobinP Well-Known Member

    That's because they are all injury free David.......we are obselete;)

    Robin
     
  6. Ben

    Ben Member

    One stark thing that I noticed was the % of injured patients seeing Physio. I think this is an area the professional associations need to do a much better job of promoting the Podiatry profession in Australia. I think Podiatry should/would want a greater % of those injured runners coming through our doors!

    Any one else with similar thoughts?
     
  7. Tuckersm

    Tuckersm Well-Known Member

    Ben, there are about 2000 registered Pods in Australia and at least 15,000 physios, so the result is actually quite good.

    A Pod to Physio ratio of 1:7.5
    A use of Pod to Physio ratio 1:3.3

    so really people are twice as likely to seek the services of a podiatrist, there just aren't enough of us.
     
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