ReviewBritish journal of sports medicine2020
Diagnosis, prevention and treatment of common lower extremity muscle injuries in sport - grading the evidence: a statement paper commissioned by the Danish Society of Sports Physical Therapy (DSSF).
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- Adductor-Related Athletic Groin Pain: A Clinical Commentary.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2026Article
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- Rehabilitative Good Practices in the Treatment of Patients with Muscle Injuries.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Review
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- Dilemma in the Treatment of Sports Injuries in Athletes: Tendon Overuse, Muscle Strain, and Tendon Rupture.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2025Review
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- Multi modal fusion of medical imaging and biomechanical data using attention based swin-unet and LSTM for sports injury prediction.Frontiers in physiology · 2025Article
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- Adaptive responses of skeletal muscle to calcaneal tendon partial injury in rats: insights into remodeling and plasticity.Molecular biology reports · 2024Article
- Effect of electroacupuncture combined with rehabilitation techniques on shoulder function in patients with rotator cuff injuries.World journal of clinical cases · 2024Article
- miR-27b-3p reduces muscle fibrosis during chronic skeletal muscle injury by targeting TGF-βR1/Smad pathway.Journal of orthopaedic surgery and research · 2024Article
- Skeletal muscle injury treatment using the Silk Elastin® injection in a rat model.Regenerative therapy · 2024Article
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Abstract
This statement summarises and appraises the evidence on diagnosis, prevention and treatment of the most common lower extremity muscle injuries in sport. We systematically searched electronic databases, and included studies based on the highest available evidence. Subsequently, we evaluated the quality of evidence using the Grading of Recommendations Assessment, Development and Evaluation framework, grading the quality of evidence from high to very low. Most clinical tests showed very low to low diagnostic effectiveness. For hamstring injury prevention, programmes that included the Nordic hamstring exercise resulted in a hamstring injury risk reduction when compared with usual care (medium to large effect size; moderate to high quality of evidence). For prevention of groin injuries, both the FIFA 11+programme and the Copenhagen adductor strengthening programme resulted in a groin injury risk reduction compared with usual care (medium effect size; low to moderate quality of evidence). For the treatment of hamstring injuries, lengthening hamstring exercises showed the fastest return to play with a lower reinjury rate compared with conventional hamstring exercises (large effect size; very low to low quality of evidence). Platelet-rich plasma had no effect on time to return-to-play and reinjury risk (trivial effect size; moderate quality of evidence) after a hamstring injury compared with placebo or rehabilitation. At this point, most outcomes for diagnosis, prevention and treatment were graded as very low to moderate quality of evidence, indicating that further high-quality research is likely to have an important impact on the confidence in the effect estimates.
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