Runners put a lot of strain through their joints and body..... full stop. This is a pure fact of running. When a runner experiences an injury for the first time they can often feel that they are the first to have ever experienced it, or that it is terminal in respect of their running, that it is indeed worse than anything any other runner has ever experienced. The fact is that whilst it may appear to be the end of the world thousands of other runners would have experienced the very same at one stage or another.
In many respects getting an injury often serves as a way of improving your running ultimately. This is the time to ramp up your learning curve in running, gain and build your experience of running and indeed move your running onwards and upwards. A time to reassess your running style, your choice of running shoe, take a look at your running training schedule, reassess the way in which you train, time to re-tune your running warm up routine, concentrate your cool down after a running training session or post event; how best to stretch and when.
Injury is often the way in which the body expresses itself to advise us that something is not quite right with our running. So do not despair; take stock and be positive. Advice and help is at hand and there are many injuries common to runners that can be solved easily via a number of avenues. Hopefully we can provide some of the information for injuries common to runners.
Runner's Common Injury No. 1 - Runner's Plantar Fasciitis
Runner's Common Injuries - Runner's Foot Pain