The purpose of this paper is to provide an understanding of the influence that different sport surfaces have on injury. It will help one understand how specific sports surfaces effect athletes, while listing the advantages and disadvantages of such sports surfaces to the runner. Running surfaces cause many sport and exercise injuries because they are ever present and because of the frequency of contact between the shoe and the surface. Changes in surface characteristics can …showed first 75 words of 1350 total…

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