LE Flexibility Effects on Performance and Injury Rates in
Division I College Runners

PI:      Neeru Jayanthi, MD
           Ryan Lingor - Co-Investigator

This study will try to determine how flexibility impacts performance and injury rates in sprinters and in distance runners. It has been previously believed that more flexibility is good for performance and injury rates in all athletes. Recent research has attempted to quantify the amount of flexibility that is good for athletes of various sports.  However, almost all of this research looks at running economy using treadmills and VO₂ max rather than actual performance data. We also believe that although all the athletes are runners, the way in which flexibility affects performance and injury rates will be vastly different in sprinters and compared to distance runners due to the demands on the muscle. It is our hope to determine how differences in flexibility affect performance levels in runners at each of the different distances.

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