Background Sports physicians are increasingly requested to perform magnetic resonance
imaging (MRI) of acute hamstring muscle injuries and to provide a prognosis of the time to …

Background MRI is frequently used in addition to clinical evaluation for predicting time to
return to sport (RTS) after acute hamstring injury. However, the additional value of MRI to …

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 …

Background A challenge for sports physicians is to estimate the risk of a hamstring re-injury,
but the current evidence for MRI variables as a risk factor is unknown. Objective To …

Background Physicians evaluating hamstring strains in professional football players are
increasingly turning to magnetic resonance imaging to support the clinical diagnosis and …

Background Previous studies have shown that MRI of fresh hamstring injuries have
diagnostic and prognostic value. The clinical relevance of MRI at return to play (RTP) has …

Background Previous studies investigating prediction of return to play after acute hamstring
injury were limited by examining a single postinjury clinical and MRI evaluation. We …

OBJECTIVE. We compared sonography and MRI for assessing hamstring injuries in
professional football players (Australian football) 3 days, 2 weeks, and 6 weeks after an …

Background Acute hamstring re-injuries are common and hard to predict. The aim of this
study was to investigate the association between clinical and imaging findings and the …

Objectives To determine agreement between modified Peetrons, Chan acute muscle strain
injury classification and British Athletics Muscle Injury Classification (BAMIC) and to …