Health Tip: Injuring a Hamstring

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Hamstring injuries, most often affecting sprinters and others who run, can be painful and take a long time to heal.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons says risk factors for hamstring injury include:

• Having tight muscles that aren’t properly stretched.
• Having a muscle imbalance, for example, the quadriceps being stronger than the hamstrings, leading to faster fatigue of the hamstrings.
• Having weak, poorly conditioned muscles.
• Being a dancer, sprinter, runner, athlete, a child or teen, or an elderly person.

Source: HealthDay

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