Why Runners Don’t Get Knee Arthritis – NYTimes

“One of the most entrenched beliefs about running, at least among nonrunners, is that it causes arthritis and ruins knees. But a nifty new study finds that this idea is a myth and distance running is unlikely to contribute to the development of arthritis, precisely and paradoxically because it involves so much running….”

Summary: “The net result of these differences, the researchers found, was that the amount of force moving through a volunteer’s knees over any given distance was equivalent, whether they ran or walked. A runner generated more pounding with each stride, but took fewer strides than a walker, so over the course of, say, a mile, the overall load on the knees was about the same.”

Read the full article from the NYTimes here:

https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/09/25/why-runners-dont-get-knee-arthritis/?ref=health&_r=0