TY - JOUR T1 - A novel hamstring strain injury prevention system: post-match strength testing for secondary prevention in football JF - British Journal of Sports Medicine JO - Br J Sports Med SP - 498 LP - 499 DO - 10.1136/bjsports-2019-100707 VL - 54 IS - 9 AU - Martin Wollin AU - Kristian Thorborg AU - Michael Drew AU - Tania Pizzari Y1 - 2020/05/01 UR - http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/54/9/498.abstract N2 - Despite the resources applied to the prevention of hamstring injuries in sport, between 2001 and 2014 the hamstring injury incidence and burden did not decline in male professional football.1 2 Consideration of alternative and complementary prevention strategies are needed.3 One-time only preseason screening for hamstring injury risk factors has limited value for preventing hamstring injuries.4 In-season monitoring of hamstring function has been advocated as a secondary prevention strategy.3 Since a player’s isometric knee flexion strength may decrease before suffering a hamstring strain (HS) injury,5 regular hamstring strength monitoring may be valuable. In-season monitoring can ensure players have restored hamstring muscle strength after the demands of a match and prior to undertaking high workloads in training or playing another match. Identifying a post-match impairment (‘subclinical stage of injury’),6 7 allows for early intervention and may be a practical way to lower susceptibility of hamstring injury (online supplementary material figure 1).Supplementary data [bjsports-2019-100707supp001.pdf] In this letter, we report our proof-of-concept hamstring injury prevention system that incorporated secondary prevention for hamstring injury in football. We also compared … ER -