HAMSTRING INJURY PREVENTION

Injuries are bound to happen. It’s the nature of sport. You push your body until your body pushes back. In sport, the hamstring muscles undergo major forces during sprinting, jumping, kicking, etc. Soccer is no exception to this. Many studies have targeted this issue and have tried to pin point how to reduce injury rate and injury recurrence in elite soccer athletes. Much of this research has looked at strength training, specifically developing eccentric hamstring strength, as a means to do this.
This study looks at the relationship between muscle injury and unilateral strength deficiencies. Could normalization of strength imbalances reduce the incidence of hamstring injuries?......