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    PREHABILITATION FOR RECREATIONAL RUNNERS: DEVELOPMENT OF AN INJURY RISK REDUCTION STRATEGY AND IMPLEMENTATION FRAMEWORK
    (2025-12) Queen Margaret University, Edinburgh
    Running-related injuries (RRI) currently remain higher than other sports which have adopted injury risk reduction practices. The overarching aim of this PhD by retrospective publication was to develop a prehabilitation intervention for recreational runners with recommendations for best practice implementation. Intervention development is mapped to the Medical Council Research (MRC) framework for complex interventions and Context Matters Sequence of Prevention Framework and underpins the sequence of research comprising five published studies using a range of methodologies to (1) investigate factors associated with RRI (2) establish views, perceptions and engagement of RRI injury risk reduction practices from stakeholders (3) review literature for efficacy of exercise-based injury prevention programmes in sport (4) compile and map all injury reduction strategies specific to runners and methods of delivery. Findings from this body of work outline development, feasibility and evaluation of an injury risk reduction intervention for recreational runners and proposes a framework that maps with the Capability Opportunity Motivation Model of Behaviour Change. This supports a multifaceted intervention addressing the complexity of RRI, with personalized approach to runners’ needs and risk profiles and supervision appearing critical for runners’ engagement. Moving forwards prehabilitation for runners will be implemented to a larger scale study providing novice recreational runners within social running environments with the “capability” to learn using health care professional endorsed resources, modules and supervised guidance from running coaches. Providing “opportunity” for coaches via a train the trainer approach to support runners, alongside digital technologies can help promote self-efficacy and “motivation” for ongoing behaviour change.