Long-term running in middle-aged men and intervertebral disc health, a cross-sectional pilot study.
Ulrike H MitchellJennifer A BowdenRobert E LarsonDaniel L BelavyPatrick J OwenPublished in: PloS one (2020)
Middle-aged long-term endurance runners exhibit less age-related decline in their lumbar IVDs. In addition, the measures of IVD morphology appeared to be better in those who had been running for a greater number of years, as well as in those who ran a greater distance per week.