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Sleep walking: poor sleep might be making you more injury-prone when you walk
4 years ago
Struggling to get a good night’s sleep? You might start to feel it in your feet. A new study suggests that kip can have a profound impact on the way we walk.
Sleep affects just about every part of life, from our ability to recover well from workouts to our mood and appetite. It also plays a huge role in how injury-prone we are. But it’s not just those explosive workouts we need to be wary of doing after a poor night’s kip – apparently, poor sleep also impacts the way we walk.
We already know that sleep and injury-risk go hand in hand. Athletes who sleep for at least eight hours a night decrease their risk of injury by up to 60%, according to 2019 research published in the Orthopaedic Journal of Sports Medicine.
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