… (synergist) muscles. Understanding these basic muscle–tendon unit risk factors may allow …
as to the factors that might reduce hamstring injury risk. We also provide recommendations for …

… stretch, which suggests that static stretching protocol used in the present study had no
short-term effect on the viscoelastic properties of human hamstring muscle-tendon unit. …

… Both hamstring muscle strains and avulsions occur proximally rather than distally with the …
-injured hamstring muscle [15]. The most vulnerable part of the muscle–tendon-bone unit is the …

… magnus muscle has a … hamstring component of the adductor magnus muscle, however, for
the purposes of this review, it will not be considered as a component of the hamstring muscle …

… of the hamstring muscles is necessary to understand their functions, and to assist in the
development of accurate clinical and biomechanical models. The hamstring muscles were …

… The length of each muscle-tendon unit, its tendons and the muscle (excluding tendinous
tissue) was measured using a tape measure (Fig. 1). To define fiber length heterogeneity, …

… hamstring injury or with normal hamstring flexibility.10, 11 A recent study demonstrated that
the hamstring muscle-tendon unit … (hamstring optimal lengths) were significantly correlated to …

… This study investigated the time course of the effect of SS on the passive stiffness of the
hamstring muscle– tendon unit. Our results showed that passive stiffness was significantly lower …

… hamstring muscle-tendon units. This study investigated whether the increased muscle-tendon …
a change in the passive properties of the muscle fascicles or tendons, or to muscle tears. …

… and immediately following a right hamstring strain. Ten sprinting … as well as hamstring
muscle-tendon unit lengths were … knee extension and hamstring muscle-tendon unit length during …