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.

Inter Miami CF defender Kieran Gibbs (3) is back at training after recovering from a preseason hamstring injury and November back surgery for a herniated disc. Hamstring injuries are common in soccer, ...

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Our hamstring muscles, which run along the back of our thigh and connect our hip joint to our knee joint, are prone to getting short and stiff thanks to the lives full of sitting that we lead.

New York Giants defensive tackle Chris Canty was so frustrated that his torn hamstring wasn't improving after more than two weeks that he turned to a relatively new medical approach _ platelet rich ...

For years, conventional wisdom in fitness culture has promoted the belief that stretching to become more flexible leads to better movement and injury prevention. But what if I told you that the road ...

For Arsenal it was a gruelling yet sadly familiar sight. A key player in obvious pain, his hand clutching the back of his leg. The hamstring muscles of the Arsenal first-team have presented problem ...

PennWest Edinboro professor Jim Roberts was diagnosed with a rare cancerous tumor in his leg. Despite a difficult recovery, Roberts resumed running and hopes to participate in the London Marathon.