Hamstring Injuries in Athletes

Objective: To give a coherent view on the problems of hamstring injuries in sports. Make an inquiry into muscle injury occurence in elite athletes (athletics- sprints, football, basketball and handball) in the Czech republic and consequently regard the possibilities of treatment by means of physical therapy and other metodes to make the time necessary for returning an injured sportsmen to competition shorter. To establish the possibilities of diagnostics, injury treatment including prevention procedure; to detail risk factors and opinions etiopathology of hamstring injury, muscle injury symptoms; to desribe the most common investigative metodes in sportsmen who suffered from hamstring injury, and various aspects of returning to training, including potential complications; and finally a brief outline of the possibilities of how to solve the problem in question in selected sport fields. Last but not least, to answer the set sientific questions. Methods: Literary review and processing the procured information from a sufficient Czech and foreign sources, mostly articles was published in specialized literature, journals, monographies and electronic database (mainly PEDro and PubMed as well as others sources from the National Health Library database). The work is divided into several chapters so that all..