ReviewBritish journal of sports medicine2016
'Serious thigh muscle strains': beware the intramuscular tendon which plays an important role in difficult hamstring and quadriceps muscle strains.
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- Effectiveness of Conservative Interventions After Acute Hamstrings Injuries in Athletes: A Living Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Pooled it
- Criteria for Progressing Rehabilitation and Determining Return-to-Play Clearance Following Hamstring Strain Injury: A Systematic Review.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2017Pooled it
- Imaging and Clinical Factors Associated With Return to Play and Recurrence After Quadriceps Muscle Strain Injury.Sports health · 2026Article
- Muscle or Fascial System Lesion (Part II): The Medial Gastrocnemius and the "Tennis Leg" Paradigm.Cureus · 2025Review
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- The Structure, Function, and Adaptation of Lower-Limb Aponeuroses: Implications for Myo-Aponeurotic Injury.Sports medicine - open · 2024Review
- Optimizing Resistance Training for Sprint and Endurance Athletes: Balancing Positive and Negative Adaptations.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2024Review
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- Surgical treatment of high-grade acute intramuscular hamstring tendon injuries in athletes leads to predictable return to sports and no re-injuries.Knee surgery, sports traumatology, arthroscopy : official journal of the ESSKA · 2023Article
- Intramuscular Tendon Injuries of the Hamstring Muscles: A More Severe Variant? A Narrative Review.Sports medicine - open · 2023Review
- Intramuscular Degloving Injury of the Rectus Femoris From Kickball: A Case Report and Review.Cureus · 2023Article
- Chronic intramuscular calcific tendinitis of the deltoid muscle.Skeletal radiology · 2023Article
- Measuring direct and indirect tendon parameters to characterize the proximal tendinous complex of the rectus femoris in football and futsal players.Frontiers in physiology · 2023Article
- Epidemiology of MRI-detected muscle injury in athletes participating in the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games.British journal of sports medicine · 2022Article
- Return to Play Prediction Accuracy of the MLG-R Classification System for Hamstring Injuries in Football Players: A Machine Learning Approach.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2022Article
- Acute Obturator Externus Injury in Professional Soccer Players: A Case Series.Medicina (Kaunas, Lithuania) · 2022Article
- The capsular head of the proximal rectus femoris muscle: a review of the imaging anatomy of proximal muscle injury in professional athletes - early experience.The British journal of radiology · 2022Review
- Management of anterior thigh injuries in soccer players: practical guide.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2022Review
- Tears of biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and semitendinosus are not equal-a new individual muscle-tendon concept in athletes.Scandinavian journal of surgery : SJS : official organ for the Finnish Surgical Society and the Scandinavian Surgical Society · 2021Review
- Intratendinous hamstring injuries: sequential MRIs as a tool to reduce the risk of reinjury in elite sport.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
Why do some hamstring and quadriceps strains take much longer to repair than others? Which injuries are more prone to recurrence? Intramuscular tendon injuries have received little attention as an element in 'muscle strain'. In thigh muscles, such as rectus femoris and biceps femoris, the attached tendon extends for a significant distance within the muscle belly. While the pathology of most muscle injures occurs at a musculotendinous junction, at first glance the athlete appears to report pain within a muscle belly. In addition to the musculotendinous injury being a site of pathology, the intramuscular tendon itself is occasionally injured. These injuries have a variety of appearances on MRIs. There is some evidence that these injuries require a prolonged rehabilitation time and may have higher recurrence rates. Therefore, it is important to recognise the tendon component of a thigh 'muscle strain'.
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