PROJECT PARTNERS
VU Amsterdam: The Faculty of Behavioural and Human Movement Sciences
Koninklijke Nederlandse Voetbalbond (KNVB)
FUNDING
ZonMW ‘Sportinnovator Voucher’
BACKGROUND
Executing Nordic curls for a period of three months, reduces the amount of hamstring injuries by 50%. Although convincing evidence by a number of RCT’s, the actual mechanism behind the intervention is still unrevealed.
Is it possible that an innovative method for measuring electromyographic data, can map individual characteristics in neurophysiological recruitment of the hamstring muscles and define the secret behind the Nordic hamstring curl?’
OBJECTIVES
The objective is to describe neurophysiological characteristics while executing a Nordic hamstring curl, and the effect of a three-month Nordic hamstring injury prevention programme.