Mechanisms of hamstring strain injury: interactions between fatigue, muscle activation and function

S Huygaerts, F Cos, DD Cohen, J Calleja-González… - Sports, 2020 - mdpi.com
Isolated injury to the long head of biceps femoris is the most common type of acute
hamstring strain injury (HSI). However, the precise hamstring injury mechanism (ie, sprint …

Hamstrings force-length relationships and their implications for angle-specific joint torques: a narrative review

E Kellis, AJ Blazevich - BMC Sports Science, Medicine and Rehabilitation, 2022 - Springer
Temporal biomechanical and physiological responses to physical activity vary between
individual hamstrings components as well as between exercises, suggesting that hamstring …

Individual differences in the neural strategies to control the lateral and medial head of the quadriceps during a mechanically constrained task

S Avrillon, A Del Vecchio, D Farina… - Journal of Applied …, 2021 - journals.physiology.org
The interindividual variability in the neural drive sent from the spinal cord to muscles is
largely unknown, even during highly constrained motor tasks. Here, we investigated …

Muscle forces and fascicle behavior during three hamstring exercises

B Van Hooren, B Vanwanseele… - … Journal of Medicine …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Knowledge about muscular forces and fascicle behavior during hamstring exercises can
optimize exercise prescription, but information on these outcomes across different exercises …

Hamstring eccentric strengthening program: does training volume matter?

M Lacome, S Avrillon, Y Cholley… - … journal of sports …, 2020 - journals.humankinetics.com
Aim: To compare the effect of low versus high volume of eccentric-biased hamstring training
programs on knee-flexor strength and fascicle length changes in elite soccer players …

Individual region-and muscle-specific hamstring activity at different running speeds

A Hegyi, B Goncalves, T Finni Juutinen… - Medicine and Science in …, 2019 - jyx.jyu.fi
Introduction: Hamstring strain injuries typically occur in the proximal biceps femoris long
head (BFlh) at high running speeds. Strain magnitude seems to be the primary determinant …

The Human Muscle Size and Strength Relationship. Effects of Architecture, Muscle Force and Measurement Location.

TG Balshaw, T Maden-Wilkinson… - Medicine & Science …, 2021 - shura.shu.ac.uk
Purpose This study aimed to determine the best muscle size index of muscle strength by
establishing if incorporating muscle architecture measurements improved the human muscle …

Perceptual-motor styles

PP Vidal, F Lacquaniti - Experimental Brain Research, 2021 - Springer
Even for a stereotyped task, sensorimotor behavior is generally variable due to noise,
redundancy, adaptability, learning or plasticity. The sources and significance of different …

[PDF][PDF] Force-sharing within the triceps surae: an achilles heel in achilles tendinopathy

M Crouzier, K Tucker, L Lacourpaille… - … and science in …, 2020 - lirias.kuleuven.be
PURPOSE: The primary aim of this study was to determine whether the distribution of force
between the three heads of the triceps surae differs between people with Achilles …

Changes in hamstrings' active stiffness during fatigue tasks are modulated by contraction duration rather than intensity

A Martínez-Serrano, R Radaelli, TT Freitas… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
Despite the increase in research of hamstring stiffness through the use of ultrasound-based
shear wave elastography, the active stiffness of biceps femoris long head (BFlh) and …