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MusculoskeletalModerate
Hamstring Strain
Sports Medicine · Musculoskeletal
Moderate
Severity
Common — one of the most frequent injuries among athletes in sprinting and jumping sports
Prevalence
No
Contagious
Sports Medicine
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🔬Causes & Risk Factors
- 1Typically caused by sudden
- 2forceful contraction of the hamstring muscle during explosive movements like sprinting or jumping
- 3often when the muscle is inadequately warmed up
- 4fatigued
- 5or has poor flexibility. Risk factors include muscle imbalance between the hamstrings and quadriceps
- 6previous hamstring injury
- 7and inadequate warm-up before high-intensity activity.
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