1 Sports Medicine and Pain Management, Private Practice, Aartselaar, Belgium.
2 Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Av 5a Nte. #20N-68, San Vicente, Cali, Colombia.
Case Study
World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 19(03), 1084–1089
Article DOI: 10.30574/wjarr.2023.19.3.1937
Received on 14 August 2023; revised on 20 September 2023; accepted on 23 September 2023
Hamstring strain injuries are common among athletes and often require intensive rehabilitation to prepare athletes for a timely return to sport performance. Return to sport is typically achieved within weeks of the hamstring injury. But subsequent athlete performance may be impaired. Both rehabilitation and preventive measures are crucial but not standardized yet. On top of the standard rehabilitation program, it would be interesting to add safe treatment modalities which could speed up recovery from such an injury. In this article we present a young athlete with a large grade 1 hamstring injury which was treated with regional sugar water injections into the muscular lesion. Although they can be biased, both treating physician as well as patient found that injury recovery went smoothly and quickly. The goal of this paper is to share this experience with other sports doctors and to invite the medical community to design randomized trials to confirm the clinical experience with this easy and safe technique. Unfortunately, the injectate is inexpensive and cannot be patented, making the product uninteresting for medical companies.
Hamstring Injury; Muscle tear, Soccer; Orthobiologics; Physiotherapy; Sports injury; PRP; Glucopuncture; Prolotherapy; Young athlete
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Kersschot J and Laverde D. Treatment of Grade 1 Hamstring Injury with Glucopuncture: A Clinical Case. World Journal of Advanced Research and Reviews, 2023, 19(3), 1084-1089. Article DOI: https://doi.org/10.30574/wjarr.2023.19.3.1937