The hamstring muscles are responsible for your hip and knee movements in walking, squatting, bending your knees, and tilting your pelvis. Hamstring muscle injuries are the most common sports injury.

A pulled hamstring is a muscle injury resulting from a strain or tear in one or more of the muscles at the back of the thigh. When it happens, there may be a sudden, severe pain and a popping or ...

Hamstring tendonitis occurs when the soft tissues that connect the muscles of the back thigh to the pelvis, knee, and lower legs become inflamed. Hamstring tendonitis is often brought on by overuse ...

A number of Premier League players – including Arsenal’s Kai Havertz and Chelsea’s Nicolas Jackson (above) – have suffered hamstring injuries in recent weeks. With the help of Matt Konopinski, ...

1 Department of Physiotherapy, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 2 Department of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia ...

The three large muscles at the back of your thigh are known as the hamstrings. They join the hip joint to the knee joint. You’ll use your hamstrings a lot in any activity that requires you to bend ...

You can apply ice to your hamstring 2-3 times a day for about 20 minutes to decrease swelling. Make sure you get rest and do not move your injured leg to help with recovery. Take non-steroidal ...

Background Clinical decision-making around intramuscular tendon injuries of the hamstrings is a controversial topic in sports medicine. For this injury, MRI at return to play (RTP) might improve RTP ...

Jayden Daniels #5, quarterback of the Washington Commanders scrambles against the Dallas Cowboys during the first half of Sunday's NFL football game. Daniels would get injured during the quarter of ...

Tight hamstrings occur when one or all three of the muscles at the back of your thigh become shortened due to prolonged sitting, overtraining or sudden increase in workout workout intensity, certain ...