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One-hundred-and-five professional and semiprofessional football field players were invited to participate in this study during the pre-season 2021\/2022 (June\u2013July), resulting in a sample size of 210 limbs with 46 sustaining HSI in the previous 2 years. No differences were seen between previously injured and healthy control players regarding their sprint performance, hamstrings shear modulus pattern, and neuromuscular parameters, except for the early rate of torque development (0\u201350 ms) with previously injured limbs in the biceps femoris long head (BFlh) displaying higher rates than their contralateral muscle (injured: 496.93 \u00b1 234.22 Nm\/s; contralateral 422.72 \u00b1 208.29 Nm\/s; p = 0.005; \u03b72p = 0.469). Overall, the present study provides evidence for no differences regarding sprint performance, hamstrings load sharing pattern, and major neuromuscular parameters between players with previous HSI in the last 2 years and healthy control players. Therefore, the results can possibly suggest that the duration between injury and screening could recover the differences between injured-control and injured-contralateral groups.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/app13053099","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,28]],"date-time":"2023-02-28T02:01:51Z","timestamp":1677549711000},"page":"3099","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":9,"title":["Effects of Repeated Sprints on Hamstring Active Shear Modulus Pattern and Neuromuscular Parameters in Football Players with and without Hamstring Strain Injury History\u2014A Retrospective Study"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"13","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-0134-5038","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ricardo","family":"Pimenta","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Estrada da Costa, 1499-002 Cruz Quebrada-Dafundo, Portugal"}]},{"given":"Tom\u00e1s","family":"Lopes","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Biochemistry, King\u2019s College London, Strand, London WC2R 2LS, UK"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-8835-7316","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Paula","family":"Bruno","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Estrada da Costa, 1499-002 Cruz Quebrada-Dafundo, Portugal"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0003-1068-1113","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ant\u00f3nio","family":"Veloso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"CIPER, Faculdade de Motricidade Humana, Universidade de Lisboa, Estrada da Costa, 1499-002 Cruz Quebrada-Dafundo, Portugal"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2023,2,27]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"327","DOI":"10.1177\/0363546512470634","article-title":"Risk Factors for Lower Extremity Muscle Injury in Professional Soccer: The UEFA Injury Study","volume":"41","author":"Ekstrand","year":"2013","journal-title":"Am. 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