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.
A pulled hamstring is a muscle injury resulting from a strain or tear in one or more of the muscles at the back of the thigh. When it happens, there may be a sudden, severe pain and a popping or ...
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 ...