Professor Jan Ekstrand is orthopedic surgeon and vice-chairman of the UEFA medical committee. He is professor of Sports Medicine at the University of Linköping, Sweden. He has been team physician of the Swedish National Soccer team.

Since 1982, professor Ekstrand has been running prospective studies related to the epidemiology of sports injuries in football. Since 2001, he has carried out EUFA injury audits in elite professional football with the aim of increasing safety in football through prospective research of 75 professional football clubs from 10 different European countries.

In this podcast with Babette Pluim, he discusses hamstring injuries.

See also:
Terminology and classification of muscle injuries in sport: The Munich consensus statement http://goo.gl/AnZxHL

Hamstring muscle injuries in professional football: the correlation of MRI findings with return to play http://goo.gl/dXCJ8Z

Return to play after thigh muscle injury in elite football players: implementation and validation of the Munich muscle injury classification http://goo.gl/8ETTeC

Diagnosis and prognosis of acute hamstring injuries in athletes http://goo.gl/WhfzyN

Recurrent hamstring muscle injury: applying the limited evidence in the professional football setting with a seven-point programme: http://bit.ly/1BjpMSB

The predictive validity of a single leg bridge test for hamstring injuries in Australian Rules Football Players: http://bit.ly/1rd8uUJ

Risk factors for hamstring injuries in community level Australian football: http://bit.ly/1rzW19c

Predicting return to play after hamstring injuries: http://bit.ly/1sIJMvh

Hamstring injury mini-symposium (BJSM papers that will help you manage hamstring injuries): http://bit.ly/1uWyHot

Injuries will decide the English Premier League Title (once again!): http://bit.ly/1m18dN9