Does a football-specific rehabilitation programme normalize isokinetic strength in professional football players with hamstring injuries?
The majority of professional football players have residual isokinetic strength deficits at return to play after hamstring injury, indicating that normalisation of strength is not guaranteed by standard rehabilitation.
When compared with the uninjured leg, 67% of the clinically recovered hamstring injuries showed at least one hamstring isokinetic testing deficit of more than 10%. Normalisation of isokinetic strength seems not to be a necessary result of the successful completion of a football-specific rehabilitation programme. The possible association between isokinetic strength deficit and increased reinjury risk remains unknown.
Tol et al. (Mon,) studied this question.
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