ArticleBritish journal of sports medicine2014
Biceps femoris and semitendinosus--teammates or competitors? New insights into hamstring injury mechanisms in male football players: a muscle functional MRI study.
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- Characterization of acute effects of football competition on hamstring muscles by muscle functional MRI techniques.PloS one · 2024Article
- Potential financial loss and risk factors for hamstring muscle injuries in elite male Brazilian soccer players: a season-long prospective cohort pilot study.Frontiers in sports and active living · 2024Article
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- Muscle dynamics analysis by clustered categories during jogging in patients with anterior cruciate ligament deficiency.BMC musculoskeletal disorders · 2023Article
- Effects of repeated sprinting on hamstring shear modulus pattern and knee flexor neuromuscular parameters.Scientific reports · 2023Article
- Relationship between shear elastic modulus and passive muscle force in human hamstring muscles using a Thiel soft-embalmed cadaver.Journal of medical ultrasonics (2001) · 2023Article
- Fatigue-induced changes in hamstrings' active muscle stiffness: effect of contraction type and implications for strain injuries.European journal of applied physiology · 2023Article
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Abstract
backgroundThe hamstring injury mechanism was assessed by investigating the exercise-related metabolic activity characteristics of the hamstring muscles using a muscle functional MRI (mfMRI) protocol.
methods27 healthy male football players and 27 football players with a history of hamstring injuries (recovered and playing fully) underwent standardised mfMR Imaging. The mfMRI protocol consisted of a resting scan, a strenuous bilateral eccentric hamstring exercise and a postexercise scan. The exercise-related T2 increase or the signal intensity shift between both scans was used to detect differences in metabolic activation characteristics (1) between the different hamstring muscle bellies and (2) between the injury group and the control group.
resultsA more symmetrical muscle recruitment pattern corresponding to a less economic hamstring muscle activation was demonstrated in the formerly injured group (p<0.05). The injured group also demonstrated a significantly lower strength endurance capacity during the eccentric hamstring exercise.
conclusionsThese findings suggest that the vulnerability of the hamstring muscles to football-related injury is related to the complexity and close coherence in the synergistic muscle recruitment of the biceps femoris and the semitendinosus. Discrete differences in neuromuscular coordination and activity distribution, with the biceps femoris partly having to compensate for the lack of endurance capacity of the semitendinosus, probably increase the hamstring injury risk.
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