Runners, It’s HIP to strengthen! It has been the focus of running training and performance to concentrate on increasing mileage as the main avenue for athletic development.  However, recent insight has illuminated some very fascinating new develops that challenge this training dogma.  With injury rates hovering between 20-80 percent, with previous injury and mileage being correlated to injury development, as illustrated by Wen, we are challenged to re-examine our intervention and prevention strategies as well as our training methods. Why do so many women runners develop knee pain? We see this very frequently in clinical practice.  Women often present with anterior knee pain, or Patellofemoral pain and often men present with Iliotibial pain (ITB) syndrome at the knee.  ...

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