Should young and adolescent athletes participate in weights and resistance training? This is a commonly discussed and often controversial...

In AFL, hamstring strains account for 1 in 6 injuries, resulting in ~21 missed games per season for each club and 2-6 weeks sporting absence each injury1,2,3,4. In professional soccer, injury rates are closer to 20% and equate to ~80 days lost per club throughout the season5. With the soccer and football seasons fast approaching, I thought we would discuss one of the most common injuries– the dreaded hamstring strain. Literature suggests that recurrence rate of hamstring inju