The hamstring muscles are responsible for your hip and knee movements in walking, squatting, bending your knees, and tilting your pelvis. Hamstring muscle injuries are the most common sports injury.

2 Department of Sports and Regenerative Medicine, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan 3 Department of Orthopaedics, Juntendo University, Tokyo, Japan 4 Graduate School of Health and Sports Science, ...

A number of Premier League players – including Arsenal’s Kai Havertz and Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson (above) – have suffered hamstring injuries in recent weeks. With the help of Matt Konopinski, ...

Unfortunately, hamstring strains are both common and painful. They strike athletes of all sorts – including runners, skaters, and football, soccer, and basketball players. But what is a hamstring? It ...

Background Hamstring strain injuries (HSI) are prevalent in elite sports. Monitoring for (re-)injury prevention often includes tests such as the straight-leg-raise, reflecting the stiffness of all the ...

I am plagued with hamstring tendinosis in both hamstrings, a condition I developed after training for the NYC marathon last year. I know exactly why it happened: I went from 30 to 70 miles miles a ...