Do you want to get your athletes with an acute hamstring injury back to play as quickly as possible, without the risk of a recurrence? Should you include lengthening exercises, trunk stabilisation, Nordic curls or PRP injections? Are you searching for a comprehensive, evidence-based update?

This 10-minute podcast will answer all your questions. BOOM!

Eminent sports physician Johannes Tol asks the hard questions. Sports physician Haiko Pas provides answers based on his recent systematic review & meta-analysis on hamstring rehab programs and PRP injections.

Time codes: Optimal treatment for a quick return to play (2.30 min), re-injury reduction (3.50min) and the added value of PRP injections (6.20min). The podcast finishes with three evidence based take home messages for the clinician dealing with acute hamstring injuries (8.20 min).

Links:

Pas H, Reurink G, Tol JL, Weir A, Winters M, Moen M. Br J Sports Med 2015 (BJSM issue 18)

Efficacy of rehabilitation (lengthening) exercises, platelet rich plasma injections and other conservative interventions in acute hamstring injuries: An updated systematic review and meta-analysis. http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2015/07/21/bjsports-2015-094879.abstract

Brukner P.

Hamstring injuries: prevention and treatment—an update.

Br J Sports Med. 2015 Jun 23. pii: bjsports-2014-094427. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2014-094427. [Epub ahead of print]

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2015/06/23/bjsports-2014-094427.long

Hamilton B, Tol JL, Almusa E, Boukarroum S, Eirale C, Farooq A, Whiteley R, Chalabi H.

Platelet-rich plasma does not enhance return to play in hamstring injuries: a randomised controlled trial.

Br J Sports Med. 2015 Jul;49(14):943-50. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2015-094603.

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/49/14/943.long

Bahr R, Thorborg K, Ekstrand J.

Evidence-based hamstring injury prevention is not adopted by the majority of Champions League or Norwegian Premier League football teams: the Nordic Hamstring survey.

Br J Sports Med. 2015 May 20. pii: bjsports-2015-094826. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2015-094826. [online first and issue 22]

http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/early/2015/05/20/bjsports-2015-094826.long

Reurink G, Goudswaard GJ, Moen MH, Weir A, Verhaar JA, Bierma-Zeinstra SM, Maas M, Tol JL; Dutch HIT-study Investigators.

Rationale, secondary outcome scores and 1-year follow-up of a randomised trial of platelet-rich plasma injections in acute hamstring muscle injury: the Dutch Hamstring Injection Therapy study.

Br J Sports Med. 2015 May 4. pii: bjsports-2014-094250. doi: 10.1136/bjsports-2014-094250. [Epub ahead of print]