Despite the resources applied to the prevention of hamstring injuries in sport, between 2001 and 2014 the hamstring injury incidence and burden did not decline in male professional football [soccer]. Consideration of alternative and complementary prevention strategies are needed. One-time only preseason screening for hamstring injury risk factors has limited value for preventing hamstring injuries. In-season monitoring of hamstring function has been advocated as a secondary prevention strategy. Since a player’s isometric knee flexion strength may decrease before suffering a hamstring strain (HS) injury, regular hamstring strength monitoring may be valuable. In-season monitoring can ensure players have restored hamstring muscle strength after the demands of a match and prior to undertaking high workloads in training or playing another match. Identifying a post-match impairment (‘subclinical stage of injury’), allows for early intervention and may be a practical way to lower susceptibility of hamstring injury. In this letter, we report our proof-of-concept hamstring injury prevention system that incorporated secondary prevention for hamstring injury in football. We also compared … Keywords: Soccer
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", language="en", issn="0306-3674", doi="10.1136/bjsports-2019-100707", url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/bjsports-2019-100707" }