TY  - JOUR
A1  - Rogan, Slavko
A1  - Wüst, Dirk
A1  - Schwitter, Thomas
A1  - Schmidtbleicher, Dietmar
T1  - Static stretching of the hamstring muscle for injury prevention in football codes: a systematic review
T2  - Asian journal of sports medicine
N2  - Purpose: Hamstring injuries are common among football players. There is still disagreement regarding prevention. The aim of this review is to determine whether static stretching reduces hamstring injuries in football codes.
Methods: A systematic literature search was conducted on the online databases PubMed, PEDro, Cochrane, Web of Science, Bisp and Clinical Trial register. Study results were presented descriptively and the quality of the studies assessed were based on Cochrane’s ‘risk of bias’ tool.
Results: The review identified 35 studies, including four analysis studies. These studies show deficiencies in the quality of study designs.
Conclusion: The study protocols are varied in terms of the length of intervention and follow-up. No RCT studies are available, however, RCT studies should be conducted in the near future.
KW  - American Football
KW  - Soccer
KW  - Prevention of Muscle Lesion
KW  - Flexibility
Y1  - 2012
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/29863
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-298636
UR  - http://asjsm.tums.ac.ir/index.php/asjsm/article/view/256.pdf
SN  - 2008-7209
SN  - 2008-000X
N1  - This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License which allows users to read, copy, distribute and make derivative works for non-commercial purposes from the material, as long as the author of the original work is cited properly.
VL  - 4
IS  - 1
SP  - 1
EP  - 9
PB  - Tehran Univ. of Medical Sciences
CY  - Tehran
ER  -