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Unpacking one of sport’s most important and challenging muscle groups: hamstrings.

Hamstring injuries remain one of the most common and burdensome injuries in sport – frequent, recurring and difficult to manage. This guide unpacks practical insights and objective testing strategies used by elite practitioners to help rehabilitate hamstring strain injuries.

This guide provides a data-driven roadmap for practitioners to take their hamstring rehabilitation process to the next level, accelerating their outcomes with cutting-edge technology.

Our research has shown that tracking these metrics – hamstring maximal strength and rate of torque development – can help identify deficits in muscle capacity that may not be evident clinically but may be critical in reducing the risk of training or playing on a fatigued muscle.

Eccentric strength testing – most notably through the Nordic hamstring exercise (NHE) – plays a central role in evaluating neuromuscular performance. The resulting force-time curves provide key metrics, such as peak force and force-time impulse, which are used to assess inter-limb symmetry and benchmark performance against sport- and position-specific norms.

Ongoing monitoring of muscle function, load management and recovery metrics provides practitioners with actionable insights to help optimize readiness and reduce the risk of soft-tissue injuries, particularly hamstring strains, which remain highly prevalent in the sport.

Quantitative strength testing is not the be-all and end-all in hamstring evaluation, but it remains a major part of the process. When strength measures do match expectations, assessment expands to include jump testing, knee and ankle isometric pushes, soleus strength and hip musculature across all planes.

Hamstring injuries continue to represent a major burden in elite sport, particularly in football (soccer). Real-time feedback improves performance acutely and directs effort in the right direction.

Practitioner’s Guide
to Hamstrings

Unpacking one of sport’s most important and challenging muscle groups: hamstrings.

Your hamstrings questions, answered.

Get the guide for free.

Practitioner’s Guide to Hamstrings

Unpacking one of sport’s most important and challenging muscle groups: hamstrings.

Your hamstrings questions, answered.

Get the guide for free.

Practitioner’s Guide
to Hamstrings