Studia Kinanthropologica 2009, 10(1):6-16

The brief sumerary on the problems of hamstring injuries in sports

I. Hnátová1,*, A. Kaplan2, D. Pavlů1
1 Katedra fyzioterapie, FTVS UK, Praha
2 Katedra atletiky, FTVS UK, Praha

To give a coherent view on the problems of hamstring injuries in sports. Make an inquiry into muscle injury occurence in elite athletes (athletics - sprints, soccer, basketball and handball) in the Czech republic and consequently regard the possibilities of prevention programe by means of physical therapy and other metodes to make the time necessary for returning an injured sportsmen to competition shorter. To establish the possibilities of prevention procedure; to describe various aspects of returning to training, including potential complications; and finally a brief outline of the possibilities of how to solve the problem in question in selected sport fields. To describe hamstrings in muscle chains. Literary review and processing the procured information from a sufficient Czech and foreign sources, mostly articles was published in specialized literature, journals, monographies and electronic database (mainly PEDro and PubMed as well as others sources from the National Health Library database). The work is divided into several chapters so that all the chapters flow from a beginning outline through imaginative line of "logistic" sequence. There are no source quotations older than ten years with exceptions though. Furthermore, we carried out a survey among sportsmen in various sport branches (athletics, soccer, handball, basketball) in Czech conditions at the top level. The survey has been processed on the basic of simple statistics methods, by means of percentage calculation and verbal evaluation. The expert opinions on hamstring injury are generally similar and digger only a little. Injury are more common when movement is carried out at maximum speed (sprinters). In collective sports such soccer, handball, basketball and many others, there is also the factor of fatigue. There is a high risk of re-injury when treatment ended prematurely. The survey confirmed high incidence of hamstring injuries in elite athletes and high risk of re-injury (77,78% injured athletes). On the basis of this survey we consider the way doctors treat this injury to be underestimated.

Keywords: Hamstrings; knee flexors; hamstring injury; sports injury; prevention

Published: March 30, 2009  Show citation

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Hnátová I, Kaplan A, Pavlů D. The brief sumerary on the problems of hamstring injuries in sports. Studia Kinanthropologica. 2009;10(1):6-16.
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