Is lower body stiffness associated with the risk of hamstring injury in professional Australian Rules footballers?
Lower body stiffness assessment may allow medical staff to determine the risk status for hamstring injuries in individual team sport players.
It appears that a high bilateral hamstring stiffness and leg stiffness may be a determinant in the risk of sustaining a hamstring injury. Further, relatively lower hamstring stiffness in the involved limb of injured players appears to be associated with increased injury and may be related to a lack of strength. The information from stiffness assessment may allow medical staff to determine the hamstring risk status for individual players in team sports.
Watsford et al. (Thu,) studied this question.