ReviewSports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.)2021
Does Muscle-Tendon Unit Structure Predispose to Hamstring Strain Injury During Running? A Critical Review.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Comparative Effectiveness of Exercise Interventions for Hamstring Injury Prevention in Football Players: A Systematic Review and Network Meta-analysis.Sports medicine - open · 2026Pooled it
- Comparison of different approaches to assess fascicle length using 3D ultrasound with cadaveric dissection as a reference for the human biceps femoris long head.Journal of ultrasound · 2026Article
- The Relationship Between Running Load, Strength, Muscle Architecture and Hamstring Strain Injury Across Two Seasons of Elite Male Australian Football: A Prospective Cohort Study.Sports medicine - open · 2025Article
- Size of Biceps Femoris Long Head Muscle Is Related to Running Economy in Male Recreational Runners.Sports (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Risk factors and injury prevention strategies for hamstring injuries: a narrative review.EFORT open reviews · 2025Review
- Reliability of Semitendinosus and Biceps Femoris Aponeurosis Thickness Using B-Mode Ultrasound.Journal of ultrasound in medicine : official journal of the American Institute of Ultrasound in Medicine · 2025Article
- Distal hamstrings tendons mechanical properties at rest and contraction using free-hand 3-D ultrasonography.Scandinavian journal of medicine & science in sports · 2024Article
- A Conceptual Exploration of Hamstring Muscle-Tendon Functioning during the Late-Swing Phase of Sprinting: The Importance of Evidence-Based Hamstring Training Frameworks.Sports medicine (Auckland, N.Z.) · 2023Review
- Hamstring muscle fibre typology is not associated with hamstring strain injury history or performance in amateur male soccer players: a retrospective magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.Biology of sport · 2023Article
- Hamstrings force-length relationships and their implications for angle-specific joint torques: a narrative review.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2022Review
- The Hamstrings: Anatomic and Physiologic Variations and Their Potential Relationships With Injury Risk.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Hamstring strain injury (HSI) remains the most common muscle injury in high-intensity running in humans. The majority of acute HSI occur specifically within the proximal region of the long head of biceps femoris and there is a sustained interest among researchers in understanding the factors that predispose to HSI. The present critical review describes the current understanding of biceps femoris long head (BFlh) structural features that might influence strain injury risk. Inter-individual differences in muscle-tendon architecture and interactions, muscle fiber type and region-specific innervation are likely to influence biceps femoris long head injury risk and might inform why some individuals are at an increased risk of sustaining a HSI during running. However, more research is needed, with future studies focusing on prospective data acquisition, improved computer simulations and direct imaging techniques to better understand the relationship between structural features, hamstring muscle function, and injury risk.
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