# Re-Run: Predicting Future Injuries & Early Detection with Eric Hegedus (Feb, 2022) Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-run-smarter-podcast-530646/re-run-predicting-future-injuries-early-detection-with-eric-hegedus-feb-2022 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-run-smarter-podcast-530646/re-run-predicting-future-injuries-early-detection-with-eric-hegedus-feb-2022.md Podcast: [The Run Smarter Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-run-smarter-podcast-530646) Published: 2025-11-30T20:00:00+00:00 Episode link: https://share.transistor.fm/s/5657ca71 Audio file: https://media.transistor.fm/5657ca71/da49b001.mp3 Processing state: not_requested JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-run-smarter-podcast-530646/episodes/re-run-predicting-future-injuries-early-detection-with-eric-hegedus-feb-2022 Duration seconds: 3815 ## Resource Learn more about Brodie's Research Database & AI Assistant ๐Ÿ“„๐Ÿ” For MORE Run Smarter Resources ๐Ÿƒโ€โ™‚๏ธ๐Ÿ“š - Including Free Injury Prevention Courses ๐Ÿฉน๐ŸŽ“ - The Run Smarter Book ๐Ÿ“– - Access to Research Papers ๐Ÿ“„๐Ÿ” - & Ways to Work with Brodie ๐Ÿค๐Ÿ‘Ÿ ๐Ÿ‘‰ CLICK HERE! ๐ŸŽ‰โœจ Predicting Future Injuries & Early Detection with Prof. Eric Hegedus In todayโ€™s rerun episode, Brodie sits down once again with Professor Eric Hegedus โ€”physical therapist, clinician, researcher, and one of the podcastโ€™s favourite returning guests. Eric previously joined us in Episode 186 to dive into return-to-running principles. Today, heโ€™s back to explore one of the hardest and most misunderstood topics in running science: Can we actually predict running injuries? If so, how? And what should runners do with that information? Using insights from his 3-year prospective cohort study, Eric walks us through what physical performance tests can and cannot tell us about injury riskโ€”and why simple movement screens like single-leg squats may be more powerful than we ever realised. We also dive into psychosocial risk factors, early warning signs, modern wearable data, and why injury prediction research is evolving rapidly. What This Episode Covers Why Eric designed a study to challenge the Functional Movement Screen (FMS) The 15 bodyweight performance tests studied across 360 athletes Which movement patterns actually mattered for overuse injuries The shocking finding: when motor control was considered, past injury stopped predicting future injury Why weak glute medius and poor ankle mobility show up repeatedly in injured runners How poor movement gives you โ€œless wiggle roomโ€ before overload Why injury prediction today is no longer just movement โ†’ injury, but a multifactorial real-time model The four early warning signs oโ€ฆ ## Actions - request_transcript: `POST https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/the-run-smarter-podcast-530646/episodes/re-run-predicting-future-injuries-early-detection-with-eric-hegedus-feb-2022/transcription-requests` โ€” Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode. - read_markdown: `GET https://stenobird.com/podcast/the-run-smarter-podcast-530646/re-run-predicting-future-injuries-early-detection-with-eric-hegedus-feb-2022.md` โ€” Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource. A page view does not enqueue transcription. Agents should invoke `request_transcript` explicitly when they need this episode processed. ## Transcript Full transcripts are not published on public pages unless there is a clear rights basis.