Practical Hamstring Training For Sports
The hamstring muscle group is critical to athletic success. It has a role in sprinting, jumping, agility, throwing, hitting, kicking, in other words just about every athletic movement. In addition, care of...
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Returning to Play After Hamstring Injuries
Mendiguchia et al, in the latest issue of the International Journal of Sports Medicine, conducted a study examining sprinting performance at the point that rehabbing players were allowed to return to sport...
Preparing for Speed Training
Speed training is an important training modality for most athletes. Speed training is also associated with hamstring injuries and shin splints. In many situations, speed training is an all-or-none effort. I mean...
Does Strength Predict Hamstring Injuries?
Hamstring injuries are common in athletes who run sprints. Because of this, a lot of research has been done to attempt to establish why this is. Theories abound including flexibility, running technique,...
Hamstring Strain Injuries: Dispelling Myths and Food for Thought
The journal Sports Medicine has a review in the March issue on hamstring strain injuries (HSI’s). Beginning with the premise that despite our knowledge of injuries and strength/conditioning, HSI’s are not declining. ...