
Sports Medicine
Preventive Effect of Eccentric Training on Acute Hamstring Injuries in Men's Soccer
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American Journal of Sports Medicine; 2011; 39(11): 2296-2303
50 Danish male professional and amateur soccer teams (n=942) were cluster randomized to receive either eccentric strengthening of the hamstring muscle using the Nordic hamstring muscle exercise (intervention) or the usual training program (control). The results after the 10-week program concluded that the control groups had significantly higher rates of acute hamstring injury in comparison to intervention. In addition, the control group had a significantly higher proportion of recurrent injury rates in comparison to intervention.
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