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| lifeskim:mentions | |
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1
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
1997-3-26
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| pubmed:abstractText |
Hamstring muscle strain is the most prevalent injury in Australian Rules Football, accounting for 16% of playing time missed as a result of injury. Thirty-seven professional footballers from an Australian Football League team had preseason measurements of hamstring and quadriceps muscle concentric peak torque at 60, 180, and 300 deg/sec measured on a Cybex 340 dynamometer. Players were studied prospectively throughout the 1995 season. During that time, six players sustained clinically diagnosed hamstring muscle injuries that caused them to miss match-playing time. The injured hamstring muscles were all weaker than in the opposite leg in absolute values and hamstring-to-quadriceps muscle ratios. According to our t-test results, hamstring muscle injury was significantly associated with a low hamstring-to-quadriceps muscle peak torque ratio at 60 deg/sec on the injured side and a low hamstring muscle side-to-side peak torque ratio at 60 deg/sec. Flexibility (as measured by the sit-and-reach test) did not correlate with injury. Discriminant-function analysis using the two significant ratio variables resulted in a canonical correlation with injury of 0.4594 and correctly classified legs into injury groups with 77.4% success. These results indicate that preseason isokinetic testing of professional Australian Rules footballers can identify players at risk of developing hamstring muscle strains.
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| pubmed:language |
eng
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| pubmed:journal | |
| pubmed:citationSubset |
IM
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| pubmed:status |
MEDLINE
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| pubmed:issn |
0363-5465
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| pubmed:author | |
| pubmed:issnType |
Print
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| pubmed:volume |
25
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
81-5
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| pubmed:dateRevised |
2004-11-17
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| pubmed:meshHeading |
pubmed-meshheading:9006698-Adult,
pubmed-meshheading:9006698-Australia,
pubmed-meshheading:9006698-Football,
pubmed-meshheading:9006698-Humans,
pubmed-meshheading:9006698-Leg Injuries,
pubmed-meshheading:9006698-Muscle, Skeletal,
pubmed-meshheading:9006698-Prospective Studies,
pubmed-meshheading:9006698-Thigh
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Preseason hamstring muscle weakness associated with hamstring muscle injury in Australian footballers.
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| pubmed:affiliation |
School of Physiology and Pharmacology, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
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| pubmed:publicationType |
Journal Article
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