Hamstring Injuries in Athletes: Diagnosis and Treatment

by Mohammad M. Alzahrani, Sultan Aldebeyan, Fahad Abduljabbar, and Paul A. Martineau

JBJS ReviewsVolume 3(6):e5June 30, 2015

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Illustrations showing the biceps femoris (Fig. 1A), the semitendinosus muscle (Fig. 1B), the semimembranosus muscle (Fig. 1C), and the muscles of the hamstring complex (Fig. 1D).

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Photographs made during a physical examination to assess hamstring strength.

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Figs. 3A and 3B A sixty-year-old woman sustained an acute hamstring injury while playing tennis.

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Axial (Fig. 4A) and coronal (Fig. 4B) T2-weighted fat-saturation MRI scans of the knee, showing a complete tear of the semimembranosus tendon at the distal myotendinous junction (arrows) with

retraction and surrounding hematoma in a twenty-four-year-old man...

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Proposed algorithm for the treatment of proximal and distal hamstring injuries.

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