The phrase "a result of overuse" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to describe a situation or condition that has occurred due to excessive use of something.
Example: "The injury was a result of overuse, leading to chronic pain in her wrist."
Alternatives: "due to excessive use" or "as a consequence of overuse."
Muscle soreness may also be a result of overuse, which may eventually lead to injury.
The chair of the Health and Safety Executive has claimed that "jobsworth" bureaucrats are creating joyless playgrounds and uninspiring science lessons as a result of overuse of regulations.
The problem was emerging throughout the country, partly as a result of overuse and misuse of some of the workhorse antibiotics developed after World War II.
"The word escalation and all its synonyms are about to drop out of the lexicon as a result of overuse," Chemi Shalev wrote in the Israeli daily Maariv today.
Frail patients died in hospital not from their primary illness but from the staphylococcus infection they picked up there, which the antibiotic methicillin was no longer able to treat because the bacteria had become resistant to the drug as a result of overuse.
Throat polyps are small fleshy growths which form on the vocal cords, usually as a result of overuse.
For example, a drastic depletion of mature broad-leaved forests, especially oak, was a result of the overuse of timber in the iron and shipbuilding industries.
Historical knowledge can help in this task, by discovering the previous dynamics of current woodlands and providing a guidance to differentiate the scarce oldest forests from the ones that are younger as a result of the overuse exerted up to mid-20th century, and from many others that have regrown since the 1950s in abandoned steep lands.
As a result of this overuse, groundwater quality has additionally disintegrated (DMG 2003, 2011).
As a result of the overuse of broad-spectrum antimicrobials such as the carbapenems, strains of Acinetobacter, Enterobacteriaceae, and Pseudomonas aeruginosa susceptible only to polymyxins and tigecycline have emerged as important causes of VAP [23].
Authorities generally agree that the predicament is a result of antibiotic overuse in both humans and animals.
