Hamstring injury prevention and training are keys to better sports performance. They are important for sprinting, changing direction, kicking, throwing, hitting a baseball or softball, etc. They are ...

Theres leg training. And then theres hamstring training. And your hamstrings are often forgotten. It happens to the best of us. You can easily go into the gym and crush a leg workout filled with ...

Hamstrings are as large as they can be limiting. Running the length of the thigh from the back of the knee to the hip, the stringy muscles and tendons are engaged in bending the knee and straightening ...

Hamstring strains are one of the most common—and frustrating—soft-tissue injuries suffered by athletes. There are two main types: an acute strain and a proximal hamstring tendinopathy, a ...

Background There is little information about the effect of hamstrings training on hip and knee joint function, morphology of each hamstring muscle, and the rate of injury incidence. Objective To ...

LITTLE ROCK — Almost every exercising American knows where the hamstrings live. Along with the quadriceps, the hamstrings are key foundational muscles of the lower body. They are relevant in walking, ...

Correspondence to Dr Cristiano Eirale, Aspetar Qatar Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Hospital, Doha, Qatar; cristiano.eirale{at}aspetar.com Since the hamstring injury rate increased only during ...

Strong hamstrings will enable you to pedal efficiently throughout your ride and reduce the risk of injury. Common forms of pain from cycling, such as back pain, often stem from weak hamstrings.

For those that spend Sundays watching NFL football, injuries seem a virtual certainty, part of the price that comes with playing a sport defined by collisions. While that’s largely true—football holds ...