The hamstring muscles are responsible for your hip and knee movements in walking, squatting, bending your knees, and tilting your pelvis. Hamstring muscle injuries are the most common sports injury.

Aches and pains on the back of your legs may be a sign of a hamstring injury. Your hamstring is a group of muscles located on the back of your thighs. Strain in these muscles is relatively common, ...

Unfortunately, hamstring strains are both common and painful. They strike athletes of all sorts – including runners, skaters, and football, soccer, and basketball players. But what is a hamstring? It ...

1 Centre for Physiotherapy Research, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand 2 Department of Anatomy and Structural Biology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand Correspondence toDr Gisela Sole ...

Background There is little information about the effect of hamstrings training on hip and knee joint function, morphology of each hamstring muscle, and the rate of injury incidence. Objective To ...

You’ll know the feeling if you have tight hamstrings – your strides feel shorter, it seems like you’re working harder than usual and your legs feel stiff and restricted. Going faster or tackling ...

When it comes to training legs, the hamstrings are serious heavy-hitters. Work them properly and you'll not only add full-body strength, you'll build athleticism and boost sporting performance.