Vascular occlusion for optimising the functional improvement in patients with knee osteoarthritis: a randomised controlled trial.

Objectives: Knee osteoarthritis (KOA) is a leading cause of global disability with conventional exercise yielding only modest improvements. Here we aimed to investigate the benefits of integrating blood flow restriction (BFR) into traditional exercise programmes to enhance treatment outcomes.

Methods: The Vascular Occlusion for optimizing the Functional Improvement in patients with Knee Osteoarthritis randomised controlled trial enrolled 120 patients with KOA at Ghent University Hospital, randomly assigning them to either a traditional exercise programme or a BFR-enhanced programme over 24 sessions in 12 weeks.

Hamstring muscle fibre typology is not associated with hamstring strain injury history or performance in amateur male soccer players: a retrospective magnetic resonance spectroscopy study.

Hamstring strain injuries (HSI) are still the most common injuries in soccer. Recent research has been focusing on the role of hamstring muscle morphology and architecture. The hamstring's fibre type composition might play a role as well, but this has never been investigated in the light of HSI risk in an athletic population.

Investigating the autoregulation of applied blood flow restriction training pressures in healthy, physically active adults: an intervention study evaluating acute training responses and safety.

Objective: To examine the effects of autoregulated (AUTO) and non-autoregulated (NAUTO) blood flow restriction (BFR) application on adverse effects, performance, cardiovascular and perceptual responses during resistance exercise.

Methods: Fifty-six healthy participants underwent AUTO and NAUTO BFR resistance exercise in a randomised crossover design using a training session with fixed amount of repetitions and a training session until volitional failure. Cardiovascular parameters, rate of perceived effort (RPE), rate of perceived discomfort (RPD) and number of repetitions were investigated after training, while the presence of delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) was verified 24 hours post-session.

Extended reality in musculoskeletal rehabilitation and injury prevention - A systematic review.

Objective: Unlike in neurological patient populations, the effects of Extended Reality within the context of sports medicine have rarely been studied. This systematic review was conducted to investigate the value of Extended Realty-assisted rehabilitation and injury prevention strategies on injury rehabilitation and prevention outcomes.

Methods: PubMed and Web of Science databases were consulted.

Association between SARS-COV-2 infection and muscle strain injury occurrence in elite male football players: a prospective study of 29 weeks including three teams from the Belgian professional football league.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to investigate the association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and muscle strain injury in elite athletes.

Methods: A prospective cohort study in three Belgian professional male football teams was performed during the first half of the 2020-2021 season (June 2020-January 2021). Injury data were collected using established surveillance methods.

Sports injury prevention programmes from the sports physical therapist's perspective: An international expert Delphi approach.

Objective: To provide consensus on how to plan, organize and implement exercise-based injury prevention program (IPP) in sports.

Design: Delphi.

Setting: LimeSurvey platform.

How injury registration and preseason assessment are being delivered: An international survey of sports physical therapists.

Objective: To identify the role of sports physical therapists (PT) in the organization of injury registration and preseason assessment, applied in athletic organizations and sports teams of different gender and level world-wide.

Design: cross-sectional study.

Setting: LimeSurvey platform.

How injury prevention programs are being structured and implemented worldwide: An international survey of sports physical therapists.

Objective: To identify the role of sports physical therapists (PT) in the injury prevention process and to compare the structure of preventive programs and associated (organization) policies applied in athletic organizations and sports teams of varying gender and level world-wide.

Design: cross-sectional study.

Setting: LimeSurvey platform.

Return to Play After a Hamstring Strain Injury: It is Time to Consider Natural Healing.

Return to play (RTP) criteria after hamstring strain injuries (HSIs) help clinicians in deciding whether an athlete is ready to safely resume previous sport activities. Today, functional and sport-specific training tests are the gold standard in the decision-making process. These criteria lead to an average RTP time between 11 and 25 days after a grade 1 or 2 HSI.

Biceps Femoris Compensates for Semitendinosus After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction With a Hamstring Autograft: A Muscle Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study in Male Soccer Players.

Background: Rates of reinjury, return to play (RTP) at the preinjury level, and hamstring strain injuries in male soccer players after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACLR) remain unsatisfactory, due to multifactorial causes. Recent insights on intramuscular hamstring coordination revealed the semitendinosus (ST) to be of crucial importance for hamstring functioning, especially during heavy eccentric hamstring loading. Scientific evidence on the consequences of ST tendon harvest for ACLR is scarce and inconsistent.

Value of isokinetic strength testing for hamstring injury risk assessment: Should the 'strongest' mates stay ashore?

Although isokinetic strength testing is commonly used in hamstring strain injury (HSI) rehabilitation and prevention, research findings concerning its predictive value remain inconclusive. Existing research focuses on peak torque (PT) and angle of PT, not analysing the torque behaviour throughout the testing range of motion (ROM). This study intended to assess the value of isokinetic curve evaluation in association with HSI.

Neurodynamic sliders promote flexibility in tight hamstring syndrome.

Hamstring injury prevention puts emphasis on optimizing the muscle's strength-length relationship. To assure appropriate muscle length, flexibility training is imperative. As neurodynamics play an important role herein, the goal of this study was to explore the intervention effect of home-based neurodynamic slider program on hamstring flexibility.

Prone Hip Extension Muscle Recruitment is Associated with Hamstring Injury Risk in Amateur Soccer.

'Core stability' is considered essential in rehabilitation and prevention. Particularly with respect to hamstring injury prevention, assessment and training of lumbo-pelvic control is thought to be key. However, supporting scientific evidence is lacking.

Deviating running kinematics and hamstring injury susceptibility in male soccer players: Cause or consequence?

Background: Although the vast majority of hamstring injuries in male soccer are sustained during high speed running, the association between sprinting kinematics and hamstring injury vulnerability has never been investigated prospectively in a cohort at risk.

Purpose: This study aimed to objectify the importance of lower limb and trunk kinematics during full sprint in hamstring injury susceptibility.

Study Design: Cohort study; level of evidence, 2.

Proximal Neuromuscular Control Protects Against Hamstring Injuries in Male Soccer Players: A Prospective Study With Electromyography Time-Series Analysis During Maximal Sprinting.

Background: With their unremittingly high incidence rate and detrimental functional repercussions, hamstring injuries remain a substantial problem in male soccer. Proximal neuromuscular control ("core stability") is considered to be of key importance in primary and secondary hamstring injury prevention, although scientific evidence and insights on the exact nature of the core-hamstring association are nonexistent at present.

Hypothesis: The muscle activation pattern throughout the running cycle would not differ between participants based on injury occurrence during follow-up.

Susceptibility to Hamstring Injuries in Soccer: A Prospective Study Using Muscle Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging.

Background: Running-related hamstring strain injuries remain a delicate issue in several sports such as soccer. Their unremittingly high incidence and recurrence rates indicate that the underlying risk has not yet been fully identified. Among other factors, the importance of neuromuscular coordination and the quality of interplay between the different hamstring muscle bellies is thought to be a key determinant within the intrinsic injury risk.

Biceps femoris and semitendinosus--teammates or competitors? New insights into hamstring injury mechanisms in male football players: a muscle functional MRI study.

Background: The hamstring injury mechanism was assessed by investigating the exercise-related metabolic activity characteristics of the hamstring muscles using a muscle functional MRI (mfMRI) protocol.

Methods: 27 healthy male football players and 27 football players with a history of hamstring injuries (recovered and playing fully) underwent standardised mfMR Imaging. The mfMRI protocol consisted of a resting scan, a strenuous bilateral eccentric hamstring exercise and a postexercise scan.

Proliferation of epithelial rests of Malassez following auto-transplantation of third molars: a case report.

Introduction: Auto-transplantation of third molars is frequently undertaken in order to restore a perfect occlusion and to improve mastication following a substantial loss of molars. However, little is known about the precise role of the periodontal membrane during this procedure. Therefore, we investigated if the epithelial rests of Malassez persist in the periodontal ligament of auto-transplanted teeth and, if so, whether these may show signs of a neuro-epithelial relationship.