What does the current evidence tell us about the effects of Nordic Hamstring Curl on injury rates? What does injury "prevention" really mean, and what factors should we consider to decrease risk? We discuss these things and much more with clinical researcher Dr. Nicol van Dyk.

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Nicol's recent paper on the Nordic hamstring curl:

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/02/26/bjsports-2018-100045 (https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/02/26/bjsports-2018-100045)

Nicol's Google Scholar citation page:

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Nicol's ResearchGate page:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicol_Van_Dyk/research (https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nicol_Van_Dyk/research)

Nicol's paper on screening:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29643091 (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29643091)

Roald Bahr's paper on screening:

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/13/776 (https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/50/13/776)

Nicol's Power BI tool to assess the influence of each study on the evidence of nordic hamstring curls: http://bit.ly/2IviOoD (http://bit.ly/2IviOoD)

Recent papers on using systematic reviews to guide practice:

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/04/08/bjsports-2018-099958 (https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/04/08/bjsports-2018-099958)

https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/04/08/bjsports-2018-099959 (https://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2019/04/08/bjsports-2018-099959)