Tom Best on hamstring injuries

Tom Best, co-medical director of Ohio State University Sports Medicine and professor of Family Medicine, OSU College of Medicine, talks about his work on the treatment of hamstring injuries.

1.00 - Clinical scenario: acute hamstring injury

4.15 - Recovery time

9.34 - Considerations before returning to sport

17.00 - Recurrence

19.30 - Use of NSAIDs

23.30 - Role of massage in sports medicine injuries

26.20 - American College of Sports Medicine 2012 meeting in San Francisico

30.30 - Other hamstring injury resources

See also:

Carl Askling’s BJSM podcast on hamstring injuries http://bit.ly/zFjobU

BJSM article: Do you consider two types of injury? http://bit.ly/15Dzv8a

Feb 2012 issue of BJSM http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/46/2.toc

Tom also mentioned:

Gisela Sole’s paper http://bit.ly/10aHLnR

Jan Ekstrand http://bit.ly/ZMbrHW

Tom’s book is Evidence Based Sports Medicine