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    I am proposing a study on runners and I need to exclude injured runners
    from the start. I have looked at many prosective and retrospective
    studies already that classify injuries in runners. However, I need more
    stringent criteria than the studies that I have looked at use. I am
    leaning toward the idea of excluding subjects based on the fact that they
    have had X injury in the past X months. Should I being using didfferent
    criteria?

    Another question I had was - now that I have appropriate subjects, how
    can I classify injury data that would occur over the course of the
    study. I was thinking about a scale of 4 grades based on symptoms,
    location of injury, and recovery time of the injury. I also need to
    include other information on how the injury occurred (e.g. acute, chonic,
    change in training habit etc.)

    I would appreciate any advise on this matter and I will of course post a
    summary of the results

    Catch you on the flip side....Patti Turnbull
    Biomechanist at Work...Soccer Player at Heart

    (e-mail aa791@freenet.hamilton.on.ca)
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