Muscle Flexibility as a Risk Factor for Developing Muscle Injuries in Male Professional Soccer Players

By Erik Witvrouw, L. Danneels, P. Asselman, Thomas D'Have, D. Cambier. American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2003

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Prevention of hamstring strains in elite soccer: an intervention study (2007, background): “Other factors, such as poor hamstring muscle flexibility (Jonhagen et al., 1994; Witvrouw et al., 2003), muscle fatigue (Mair et al., 1996) and insufficient warm-up (Safran et al., 1988), have also been suggested to predispose to hamstring strains, but the evidence for this is less convincing (Bahr…”
Incidence, Risk, and Prevention of Hamstring Muscle Injuries in Professional Rugby Union (2006, background): “Evidence-based information on risk factors for hamstring muscle injuries is limited,(11,35) and this situation is compounded because some evidence was derived from studies in which the numbers of participants were small,(2,10,12,17,33,41,46,47) players’ exposure data were not recorded,(2,4,10,12,17,”