Medically reviewed by Theresa Marko, PT Exercising your hamstrings is important for mobility (movement), athletic performance ...

For fitness-minded folks, muscle testing can sound pretty intriguing. But it turns out that it has little to do with fitness...or even muscles. On a basic level, muscle testing looks at a muscle and ...

MEDLINE, the Cochrane Library of Systematic Reviews up to August 2011, and 6 other databases were searched using words related to the study objective. Google Scholar was used to track citations, and ...

When I was trained as an American physician, I was never exposed to the concept of muscle strength testing that is utilized as part of the pseudo-scientific field of applied kinesiology (AK). To be ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . ACL reconstruction with hamstring tendon graft may yield decreased knee flexion strength vs. reconstruction with ...

Objective We aimed to determine hip and lower-leg muscle strength in people after ACL injury compared with an uninjured control group (between people) and the uninjured contralateral limb (between ...

Your hamstring is a group of three muscles along the back of your thigh. These muscles help you bend your knee and straighten and rotate your leg. If the muscle fibers or tendons that connect your ...

Background Hamstring (HS) strength deficits and imbalances have been identified as risk factors for sustaining ACL injuries and muscular strains, with HS injuries being the most prevalent muscle ...

But what if I told you that you don't need to visit a fancy lab or use strange equipment to get an idea of how strong your leg muscles are? That's right! The answer might just be in the most common ...