Conclusion - Review of Stretching in the Prevention of Muscle Injuries in Association Football

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To summarise, there is mixed evidence from research investigating the relationship between decreased hamstring extensibility and hamstring muscle injury. Where previous authors (Ekstrand and Gillquist, 1983; Keller, 1987) were quite unequivocal that there was a strong relationship between decreased extensibility and muscle injury - to the point where they felt it was the major aetiological factor - more recent research supports a multi-factoral aetiology of hamstring muscle strains.

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