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Location of Hamstring Injuries Based on Magnetic Resonance Imaging: A Systematic Review.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Mechanisms of hamstring strain injuries in sprinting: an integrative scoping review of intrinsic, biomechanical and modifiable risk factors.Frontiers in physiology · 2026Pooled it
- Acute effects of flossing band application on hamstring muscle mechanical properties and stretch tolerance: a randomized controlled crossover trial.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Trial
- Morphologic and morphometric study of the long head of the biceps femoris in male cadavers: tendon and MTJ insights for injury diagnosis.Anatomical science international · 2026Article
- Hamstring fascicle behavior during leg curl exercises performed at varying knee joint angles and loading intensities in individuals with a history of unilateral hamstring injury: a randomized cross-over design study.BMC sports science, medicine & rehabilitation · 2026Article
- Clustering analysis of hamstring injuries-A pilot study to determine phenogroups based on injury characteristics and recovery duration.Journal of experimental orthopaedics · 2026Article
- Ageing-related structural and cellular alterations in the mouse muscle-tendon junction.Biogerontology · 2026Article
- Effects of Unilateral Nordic Hamstring Training with a Sloped Platform on Biceps Femoris Fascicle Length in Athletes with a History of Hamstring Strain Injury.Muscles (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Intra- and intermuscular shear wave speed distributions in the human hamstrings during isometric and eccentric contractions.European journal of applied physiology · 2026Article
- Velocity-Dependent Stress Changes in the Hamstring Muscle-Tendon Complex: A Study Using Human Cadavers.Translational sports medicine · 2026Article
- Hamstring muscle injury rehabilitation in sports: a scoping review.BMJ open sport & exercise medicine · 2026Article
- The repair capacity spectrum of human skeletal muscle injury from sports to surgical trauma settings.The Journal of physiology · 2025Review
- ChatGPT Provides Accurate but Incomplete Responses and Reliably Adjusts Readability to Prompts for Hamstring Injury Frequently Asked Questions.Arthroscopy, sports medicine, and rehabilitation · 2025Article
- Management of Proximal Hamstring Injuries: Non-operative and Operative Treatment.Current reviews in musculoskeletal medicine · 2024Review
- Muscle Activity and Kinematics During Three Hamstring Strengthening Exercises Compared to Sprinting: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of sports physical therapy · 2024Article
- Traumatic muscle injury.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2023Review
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Abstract
contextHamstring muscle injury location using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is not so well described in the literature.
objectiveTo describe the location of hamstring injuries using MRI. DATA SOURCES: PubMed, Web of Science, Scopus, SPORTDiscus, Cochrane Library. STUDY SELECTION: The full text of studies, in English, had to be available. Case reports and reviews were excluded. Included studies must report the location of hamstring injuries using MRI within 8 days of the acute injury. STUDY
designSystematic review. LEVEL OF EVIDENCE: Level 4. DATA EXTRACTION: A first screening was conducted based on title and abstract of the articles. In the second screening, the full text of the remaining articles was evaluated for the fulfillment of the inclusion criteria.
resultsFrom the 2788 references initially found in 5 databases, we included 34 studies, reporting a total of 2761 acute hamstring injuries. The most frequent muscle head involved was the long head of the biceps femoris (BFLH) (70%), followed by the semitendinosus (ST) (15%), generally associated with BFLH. The most frequent tissue affected was the myotendinous junction (MTJ) accounting for half the cases (52%). Among all lesions, the distribution between proximal, central, and distal lesions looked homogenous, with 34.0%, 33.4% and 32.6%, respectively. The stretching mechanism, while only reported in 2 articles, represented 3% of all reported mechanisms, appears responsible for a specific lesion involving the proximal tendon of the semimembranosus (SM), and leading to a longer time out from sport.
conclusionBFLH was the most often affected hamstring injuries and MTJ was the most affected tissue. In addition, the distal, central, and proximal locations were homogeneously distributed. We also noted that MRI descriptions of hamstring injuries are often poor and did not take full advantage of the MRI strengths. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW REGISTRATION: Before study initiation, the study was registered in the PROSPERO International prospective register of systematic reviews (registration number CRD42018107580).
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