
“Injury Rate and Patterns Among CrossFit Athletes,” Dr. Brian Giordano
Anther survey-based study of CrossFit has surfaced on the internet, this time in the Open Access Journal for Orthopedic Sports Medicine. The study, titled Injury Rate and Patterns Among CrossFit Athletes, reports a near 20% injury rate among CrossFit participants, but then compares this to the “incidence rate” of injury in running, cited to be between 19.4% to 79.3%. This obviously puts CrossFit on the lower end of the calculated range. But there is a problem with this study. What the authors […]
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