Overview
- Provides groundbreaking insights into preventing hamstring injuries
- Presents contributions by renowned hamstring researchers and clinical practitioners from around the globe
- Includes sports physicians’, sports scientists’ and physiotherapists’ views on hamstring injuries
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Kristian Thorborg is an Associate Professor at Copenhagen University. He is currently employed as senior researcher, at the Sports Orthopedic Research Center – Copenhagen (SORC-C), and the Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Research – Copenhagen (PMR-C) programme. Both centers/programmes are part of the Copenhagen IOC Research Centre in Injury and Illness Prevention. Kristian is a Specialist in Sports Physical Therapy since 2004, with more than 20 years of clinical experience within sports and orthopedic injury prevention, assessment and treatment. Kristian Thorborg has published more than 145 peer-reviewed articles and 25 book chapters. Kristian is ranked as no. 1 by expertscape.com (online guide to find biomedical experts and institutions) within the area of both “Hip” and “Groin” and currently publishes more than 30 peer reviewed papers annually.
David Opar is a Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Exercise Science at Australian Catholic University (Melbourne Campus). Having completed a Bachelor degree (with Honours) in Human Movement at RMIT University in 2008, Dr Opar commenced a PhD on hamstring injuries at Queensland University of Technology under the supervision of Associate Professor Anthony Shield in 2010. Dr Opar was conferred his PhD in December 2013. Since, Dr Opar has published over 40 peer-reviewed articles, most of which are focused on hamstring injury. Dr Opar’s research covers many areas in hamstring injury, from risk factor analysis and intervention strategies through to optimising rehabilitation and return to play strategies. In conjunction with Associate Professor Shield, Dr Opar was a co-inventor of the NordBord device, which is tool utilised around the world to measure eccentric hamstring strength in the field.
Anthony Shield is an Associate Professor of Exercise Science at the Queensland University of Technology in Brisbane, Australia. He completed his PhD at Southern Cross University in 2003. Dr Shield has written more than 50 peer-reviewed publications, of which, more than 30 are on the topic of hamstrings. He and his group have introduced the concept that neuromuscular inhibition may be a contributing factor to hamstring injury recurrence and have investigated the role of eccentric strength and hamstring muscle architecture on injury risk.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Prevention and Rehabilitation of Hamstring Injuries
Editors: Kristian Thorborg, David Opar, Anthony Shield
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-31638-9
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31637-2Published: 23 March 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-31640-2Published: 26 August 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-31638-9Published: 21 March 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 347
Number of Illustrations: 17 b/w illustrations, 67 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sports Medicine, Orthopedics, Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, Rehabilitation, Epidemiology