What is a hamstring injury?

Question

what does it mean when you pull a hamstring? were is the hamstring ???? i wasn wondering because you always hear that kind of inury in football..

Answer 1

You have tree hamstring muscles (biceps femoris, semimembranosus, and the semitendinosus). They are predominately used to flex the knee. They are also the antagonist muscles to the quads. Relative to the quads, they are very small muscles in girth. They extend from your ischial tuberosity (bottom of your butt) to the lateral sides of you tibia and fibula. When the quads fire to extend the knee, the hamstrings work as the antagonist, or the break. Being that the quads are much stronger, the muscle imbalance will overy stretch the hamstrings during a contraction or stretch reflex, causing microtears in most cases but may even cause more serious macro tears. Most of the time during sprinting you will strain the hamstrings at the musclotenonous junction at the top. That's why you will see a football player pull up all of the sudden and hold what looks like the bottom of their butt. Depending on the severity of the strain, an athlete can expect to be out a matter of days upwards to a months. I'm tired of typing. Hope this helped.

Answer 2

A pulled hamstring is a common sports injury, seen most commonly in sprinters. When an athlete "pulls their hamstring," they have sustained an injury to the muscle called a hamstring strain. Treatment of a pulled hamstring is important for a speedy recovery.

Answer 3

a hamstring is a muscle about half the size of your leg.When you ''Pull your hamstring''.you dislocate the muscle or stretch to far.

Answer 4

Its simply when one of your hamstring inner fibres (thinner than a tenth of a pin head needle) breaks. Thats all it is, but its made to sound big.