'Serious thigh muscle strains': beware the intramuscular tendon which plays an important role in difficult hamstring and quadriceps muscle strains

P Brukner, D Connell - British journal of sports medicine, 2016 - bjsm.bmj.com
Why do some hamstring and quadriceps strains take much longer to repair than others?
Which injuries are more prone to recurrence? Intramuscular tendon injuries have received …

Return to play after a hamstring strain injury: it is time to consider natural healing

D Pieters, E Wezenbeek, J Schuermans, E Witvrouw - Sports medicine, 2021 - Springer
Return to play (RTP) criteria after hamstring strain injuries (HSIs) help clinicians in deciding
whether an athlete is ready to safely resume previous sport activities. Today, functional and …

Return to play after hamstring injuries in football (soccer): a worldwide Delphi procedure regarding definition, medical criteria and decision-making

N Van Der Horst, FJG Backx, EA Goedhart… - British journal of sports …, 2017 - bjsm.bmj.com
There are three major questions about return to play (RTP) after hamstring injuries: How
should RTP be defined? Which medical criteria should support the RTP decision? And who …

Intramuscular tendon involvement on MRI has limited value for predicting time to return to play following acute hamstring injury

AD Van Der Made, E Almusa, R Whiteley… - British journal of sports …, 2018 - bjsm.bmj.com
Background Hamstring injury with intramuscular tendon involvement is regarded as a
serious injury with a delay in return to play (RTP) of more than 50 days and reinjury rates up …

Diffusion tensor imaging and quantitative T2 mapping to monitor muscle recovery following hamstring injury

JR Monte, MT Hooijmans, M Froeling… - NMR in …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
MRI examinations are accurate for diagnosing sports‐related acute hamstring injuries.
However, sensitive imaging methods for assessing recovery of these injuries are lacking …

Location of hamstring injuries based on magnetic resonance imaging: a systematic review

S Grange, G Reurink, AQ Nguyen… - Sports …, 2023 - journals.sagepub.com
Context: Hamstring muscle injury location using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is not so
well described in the literature. Objective: To describe the location of hamstring injuries …

New MRI muscle classification systems and associations with return to sport after acute hamstring injuries: a prospective study

A Wangensteen, A Guermazi, JL Tol, FW Roemer… - European …, 2018 - Springer
Objectives To determine agreement between modified Peetrons, Chan acute muscle strain
injury classification and British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification (BAMIC) and to …

Return to play after thigh muscle injury: utility of serial ultrasound in guiding clinical progression

MM Hall - Current sports medicine reports, 2018 - journals.lww.com
Return to play after thigh muscle strain injury is difficult to predict and recurrent injury rates
are high. There is currently no agreement on the optimal return to play protocol following …

Treatment of muscle injuries in football

P Ueblacker, L Haensel… - Journal of Sports …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
Muscle injuries are frequent and represent one of the most substantial medical problems in
professional football. They can have both traumatic and overuse causes with direct practical …

[HTML][HTML] Time for a paradigm shift in the classification of muscle injuries

B Hamilton, JM Alonso, TM Best - Journal of sport and health science, 2017 - Elsevier
Muscle injuries remain one of the most common injuries in sport, yet despite this, there is
little consensus on how to either effectively describe or determine the prognosis of a specific …