Physical, psychosocial, menstrual changes/risks, and addiction in the female marathon and nonmarathon runner

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From a sample of marathon (N = 57) and nonmarathon (N = 38) female runners physical, psychosocial, menstrual changes/risks and addictive behaviors were identified. There was a high incidence of knee injury in both groups of runners. Marathon runners had a significantly higher incidence of both heel pain and stress fractures. Psychosocial variables of anxiety, self‐esteem, family/spouse relationships and addictive behaviors did not differ significantly in the two groups. In addition, those reporting more addicitive behaviors did not report a significantly higher incidence of physical injury; however, there was an association between higher addiction scores and lower self‐esteem.

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