@article{ref1,
title="Can a clinical test of hamstring strength identify football players at risk of hamstring strain?",
journal="Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy",
year="2011",
author="Schache, Anthony G. and Crossley, Kay M. and Macindoe, Ian G. and Fahrner, Brendan B. and Pandy, Marcus G.",
volume="19",
number="1",
pages="38-41",
abstract="PURPOSE: To demonstrate the potential for a simple clinical test of hamstring muscle strength to identify susceptibility to muscle strain injury. <br><br>METHODS: A single-case design was used; specifically, an elite-level male Australian Rules football player performed bilateral isometric maximum voluntary contractions of the hamstring muscles on a weekly basis for a period of 5 weeks preceding a right hamstring muscle strain injury. <br><br>RESULTS: Minimal asymmetry (no greater than ±1.2% difference) was evident in the hamstring isometric maximum voluntary contractions during the first 4 weeks, but 5 days prior to injury, the right hamstring isometric maximum voluntary contraction was reduced by 10.9% compared to the left. <br><br>CONCLUSION: Measuring asymmetry in isometric maximum voluntary contractions of the hamstring muscles may be a useful clinical test to identify susceptibility to muscle strain injury.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0942-2056",
doi="10.1007/s00167-010-1221-2",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00167-010-1221-2"
}