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The hamstring muscles are responsible for your hip and knee movements in walking, squatting, bending your knees, and tilting your pelvis. Hamstring muscle injuries are the most common sports injury.

A pulled hamstring is a muscle injury resulting from a strain or tear in one or more of the muscles at the back of the thigh. When it happens, there may be a sudden, severe pain and a popping or ...

A hamstring tear injury is a rip in the hamstring muscles. It happens when the hamstrings are overstretched or overloaded with too much weight. Depending on the injury, the hamstring can tear ...

Tight hamstrings can feel like a stiffness or lack of mobility in the back of your thigh. Running and lifting weights can cause hamstring injuries so it's important to stretch before. Massage and ...

Hamstring exercises include the deadlift, hamstring curl, Bulgarian split squat. To avoid injury, warm up your hamstrings before working out with mobility exercises like toe touches. Recovery is key ...