An evidence-based framework for strengthening exercises to prevent hamstring injury

MN Bourne, RG Timmins, DA Opar, T Pizzari… - Sports Medicine, 2018 - Springer
Strength training is a valuable component of hamstring strain injury prevention programmes;
however, in recent years a significant body of work has emerged to suggest that the acute …

The effect of Nordic hamstring exercise intervention volume on eccentric strength and muscle architecture adaptations: a systematic review and meta-analyses

M Cuthbert, N Ripley, JJ McMahon, M Evans, GG Haff… - Sports Medicine, 2020 - Springer
Background Although performance of the Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) has been shown
to elicit adaptations that may reduce hamstring strain injury (HSI) risk and occurrence …

Impact of the Nordic hamstring and hip extension exercises on hamstring architecture and morphology: implications for injury prevention

MN Bourne, SJ Duhig, RG Timmins… - British journal of sports …, 2017 - bjsm.bmj.com
Background The architectural and morphological adaptations of the hamstrings in response
to training with different exercises have not been explored. Purpose To evaluate changes in …

A comprehensive strength testing protocol offers no clinical value in predicting risk of hamstring injury: a prospective cohort study of 413 professional football players

N Van Dyk, R Bahr, AF Burnett, R Whiteley… - British Journal of …, 2017 - bjsm.bmj.com
Background Hamstring injuries remain prevalent across a number of professional sports. In
football, the incidence has even increased by 4% per year at the Champions League level …

Hamstring rehabilitation in elite track and field athletes: applying the British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification in clinical practice

B Macdonald, S McAleer, S Kelly… - British journal of sports …, 2019 - bjsm.bmj.com
Rationale Hamstring injuries are common in elite sports. Muscle injury classification systems
aim to provide a framework for diagnosis. The British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification …

Optimising the 'mid-stage'training and testing process after ACL reconstruction

M Buckthorpe, F Della Villa - Sports Medicine, 2020 - Springer
Outcomes following anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction need improving, with
poor return-to-sport rates and high risk of secondary re-injury. There is a need to improve …

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 …

Longing for a longitudinal proxy: Acutely measured surface EMG amplitude is not a validated predictor of muscle hypertrophy

AD Vigotsky, I Halperin, GS Trajano, TM Vieira - Sports Medicine, 2022 - Springer
Surface electromyography amplitudes are commonly measured in acute sports and exercise
science studies to make inferences about muscular strength, performance, and hypertrophic …

Electromyographic activity in deadlift exercise and its variants. A systematic review

I Martín-Fuentes, JM Oliva-Lozano, JM Muyor - PloS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
The main purpose of this review was to systematically analyze the literature concerning
studies which have investigated muscle activation when performing the Deadlift exercise …

Is fatigue a risk factor for anterior cruciate ligament rupture?

MN Bourne, KE Webster, TE Hewett - Sports medicine, 2019 - Springer
Neuromuscular fatigue is a commonly accepted risk factor for anterior cruciate ligament
(ACL) injury. It has been proposed that fatigue leads to transient reductions in muscle …