Friday 15 March 2019

Pulled Hamstring That Pulls Every Sportsperson Out of the Track

Pulled Hamstring That Pulls Every Sportsperson Out of the Track

Pulled Hamstring

Remember last year’s 4x100m relay race at the IAAF World Championships in London, when the Olympic champion and world record holder Usain Bolt tore his left hamstring in the final race of his career and had to exit the track via a wheelchair? Hamstring injuries are that bad and every sportsperson carries a risk of getting it injured at some point. They are the most common injury in sports which accounts for 37% of the muscular injuries observed in a sport worldwide.
Before getting into the details, let’s understand what are the hamstring muscles, what do hamstrings do and how do they get injured?
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