If you run with a friend or family member of the opposite gender, it may seem like the two of you tend to have different kinds of injuries.
Until recently, female runners blamed their increased hip pain and tendency toward fractures to wide-set hips and a low bone density. Meanwhile, men thought they experienced more tendon and knee injuries because of the way they’re built.
This may not be the case. A grad student at UBC Environmental Physiology Lab decided to put this theory to the test and found no real difference between men’s and women’s injury types.
More research is being done, but we may find out that our tendency toward injury has more to do with our training and pacing than our physiology.
