The volume of high-speed running in modern soccer has increased in line with greater demands placed on professional players, ...

How to reduce hamstring injury risk While no strategy can completely eliminate risk, there is evidence that two approaches reduce hamstring injuries: sprinting and eccentric strength training.

Adaptations in the hamstring muscle-tendon unit following a 9-week eccentric training program. The results demonstrate that while training allows muscle fibers to operate over significantly longer ...

MEDLINE, the Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews up to August 2011, and 6 other databases were searched using words related to the study objective. Google Scholar was used to track citations, and ...