The hamstring muscles are responsible for your hip and knee movements in walking, squatting, bending your knees, and tilting your pelvis. Hamstring muscle injuries are the most common sports injury.
2 Department of Sports and Regenerative Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Orthopaedics, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan 4 Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, ...
A number of Premier League players – including Arsenal’s Kai Havertz and Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson (above) – have suffered hamstring injuries in recent weeks. With the help of Matt Konopinski, ...
Background There has been significant interest in exploring the patterns of muscle activity in hamstring exercises, however, there is no research examining the architectural and morphological ...
Unfortunately, hamstring strains are both common and painful. They strike athletes of all sorts – including runners, skaters, and football, soccer, and basketball players. But what is a hamstring? It ...
Hamstring tendonitis occurs when the soft tissues that connect the muscles of the back thigh to the pelvis, knee, and lower legs become inflamed. Hamstring tendonitis is often brought on by overuse ...
I am plagued with hamstring tendinosis in both hamstrings, a condition I developed after training for the NYC marathon last year. I know exactly why it happened: I went from 30 to 70 miles miles a ...