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Muscle Imbalances: Testing and Training Functional Eccentric Hamstring Strength in Athletic Populations

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Interventions for preventing hamstring injuries.

Elliott F Goldman¹, Diana E Jones

¹Synergy Healthcare, 1-4 Stokers Buildings, Front Street East, Bedlington, Northumberland, UK, NE22 5DS.

The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews

|January 22, 2010

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Preventing hamstring injuries in athletes lacks sufficient evidence from randomized controlled trials. Current interventions, including strengthening and stretching, show no clear benefit, and manual therapy findings require further confirmation.

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Area of Science:

Sports Medicine
Injury Prevention
Rehabilitation

Background:

Hamstring injuries are common in sports like football.
Various interventions are used to prevent these injuries.
Evidence for their effectiveness is limited.

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the effectiveness of interventions for preventing hamstring injuries.
To assess the impact on injury incidence in physically active individuals.

Main Methods:

Systematic review of randomized and quasi-randomized controlled trials.
Searched major databases up to December 2008.
Included trials on hamstring injury prevention and lower-limb injuries with hamstring data.

Main Results:

Seven trials (1919 participants) were included; some had methodological limitations.
Four trials on direct hamstring injury prevention showed no consistent benefit.
Manual therapy showed potential but lacked statistical significance for hamstring injury.

Conclusions:

Insufficient evidence exists to conclude the effectiveness of current hamstring injury prevention strategies.
Further research, particularly on manual therapy, is needed to confirm findings.