Here's how to identify a pulled hamstring and eight of the best ways to treat it. Symptoms and risk factors A hamstring injury usually starts with a very sudden and sharp pain in the back of your ...

As a group, they're known as the hamstring. A hamstring strain — sometimes called a pulled hamstring — happens when one or more of these muscles get stretched too far and start to tear. Hamstring ...

Hamstring injuries often occur at the moment a person pushes off to begin running. Most hamstring strain or pull injuries are partial thickness tears, in which only part of a muscle is torn. A ...

MRI findings and time back to sport from our ongoing study on acute hamstring strains. When the free proximal tendon is involved, there seems to be an extended period of time before full function ...

Background To evaluate the efficacy of early versus delayed introduction of lengthening (ie, eccentric strengthening) exercises in addition to an established rehabilitation programme on return to ...