@article{ref1,
title="Does the toe-touch test predict hamstring injury in Australian Rules footballers?",
journal="Australian journal of physiotherapy",
year="1999",
author="Bennell, Kim and Tully, Elizabeth and Harvey, Natalie",
volume="45",
number="2",
pages="103-109",
abstract="This prospective cohort study evaluated the relationship of hamstring and lumbar spine flexibility to hamstring injury. Sixty-seven senior male Australian Rules footballers were videotaped while performing a toe-touch test from erect standing. The Peak Motion Measurement System was used to obtain measurements of end range hip flexion, lumbar flexion, toe-touch distance (TTD) and the ratio of lumbar spine flexion to hip flexion. Over the following football season, eight subjects (11.9 per cent) sustained a hamstring strain. <br><br>RESULTS showed no significant difference between the hamstring injured or uninjured players for any of the measured variables with no variable able to predict the likelihood of injury (p > 0.05). In this cohort, the toe-touch test would not appear to be a useful screening tool to identify footballers at risk for hamstring strain.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0004-9514",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}