Background: Many injury prevention and rehabilitation programs aim to train hamstring and quadriceps co-activation to constrain excessive anterior tibial translation and protect the anterior cruciate ...

Background The medial hamstring muscle has the potential to prevent excessive dynamic valgus and external rotation of the knee joint during sports. Thus, specific training targeting the medial ...

What you may not know, is that your hamstrings make up one third of your lower-body muscle mass. Without them, your glutes (and the rest of your leg muscles) would be pretty powerless, and not ...

Hamstring rehabilitation exercises can aid recovery and help prevent future injuries. Rehabilitation protocols typically call for a combination of stretching and strengthening movements. While severe ...

Hamstring exercises include the deadlift, hamstring curl, Bulgarian split squat. To avoid injury, warm up your hamstrings before working out with mobility exercises like toe touches. Recovery is key ...

I’ve been doing a lot of work to strengthen my legs lately; the move that has made the biggest difference is the hamstring slider.

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 ...

When it comes to knowing which hamstring exercises could actually benefit you, the lines are blurred. Contrary to popular opinion, studies show that squats will have barely any effect on the ...

The purpose of this pilot study was to investigate whether hamstring-quadriceps co-activation altered knee joint motion and limited ACL elongation during a step-up task. Although preliminary, the ...