ArticleGait & posture2022
Recreational runners who recovered from COVID-19 show different running kinetics and muscle activities compared with healthy controls.
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- Osteonecrosis as a manifestation of Long-COVID Syndrome: a systematic review.Musculoskeletal surgery · 2025Pooled it
- The effect of fatigue induced by running at heart rate deflection point in people with pronated versus healthy feet.Communications medicine · 2025Article
- Do COVID-19 recovered individuals differ from healthy controls in accelerometer-measured physical activity and self-reported sleep? a UAE-based study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Assessing the Impact of COVID-19 on Amateur Runners' Performance: An Analysis through Monitoring Devices.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Effect of COVID-19 on Musculoskeletal Performance in Gait and the Timed-Up and Go Test.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Article
- Smartphone-based evaluation of static balance and mobility in long-lasting COVID-19 patients.Frontiers in neurology · 2023Article
- The Impact of COVID-19 and Muscle Fatigue on Cardiorespiratory Fitness and Running Kinetics in Female Recreational Runners.Frontiers in physiology · 2022Article
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Abstract
backgroundSocial isolation through quarantine represents an effective means to prevent COVID-19 infection. A negative side-effect of quarantine is low physical activity. RESEARCH QUESTION: What are the differences of running kinetics and muscle activities of recreational runners with a history of COVID-19 versus healthy controls?
methodsForty men and women aged 20-30 years participated in this study and were divided into two experimental groups. Group 1 (age: 24.1 ± 2.9) consisted of participants with a history of COVID-19 (COVID group) and group 2 (age: 24.2 ± 2.7) of healthy age and sex-matched controls (controls). Both groups were tested for their running kinetics using a force plate and electromyographic activities (i.e., tibialis anterior [TA], gastrocnemius medialis [Gas-M], biceps femoris [BF], semitendinosus [ST], vastus lateralis [VL], vastus medialis [VM], rectus femoris [RF], gluteus medius [Glut-M]).
resultsResults demonstrated higher peak vertical (p = 0.029; d=0.788) and medial (p = 0.004; d=1.119) ground reaction forces (GRFs) during push-off in COVID individuals compared with controls. Moreover, higher peak lateral GRFs were found during heel contact (p = 0.001; d=1.536) in the COVID group. COVID-19 individuals showed a shorter time-to-reach the peak vertical (p = 0.001; d=3.779) and posterior GRFs (p = 0.005; d=1.099) during heel contact. Moreover, the COVID group showed higher Gas-M (p = 0.007; d=1.109) and lower VM activity (p = 0.026; d=0.811) at heel contact. SIGNIFICANCE: Different running kinetics and muscle activities were found in COVID-19 individuals versus healthy controls. Therefore, practitioners and therapists are advised to implement balance and/or strength training to improve lower limbs alignment and mediolateral control during dynamic movements in runners who recovered from COVID-19.
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