Can Blood Flow Restricted Exercise Improve Ham:Quad Ratios Better Than Traditional Training?

Muscular deficiencies between the quadriceps and hamstrings are prevalent among women and often lead to knee injury and ACL tears. The purpose of this study was to examine whether short term resistance training with or without blood flow restriction (BFR) could improve hamstring:quadricep ratios (H:Q) and reduce the chance for injury. Women ( = 14; 18-25 yrs) were randomly assigned to either a traditional resistance training (RT: = 8) or BFR resistance training in combination with traditional RT (RT+BFR: = 6) group.