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Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound in the Evaluation of the Medial Hamstrings.

International journal of sports physical therapy · 2026 · Other · PT

Robert C Manske, Chris Wolfe, Phil Page, Michael Voight

PMID 42083627

This is a technique guide for scanning the medial hamstrings with ultrasound.

It contains no research question, no participant data, and no outcomes to report.

What this paper is

This is a technical description of how to perform musculoskeletal ultrasound on the medial hamstrings. It covers the anatomy of the semitendinosus and semimembranosus, the transducer positions and scanning sequence in short and long axis, and two illustrative images of a grade II semitendinosus strain and a grade I-II semimembranosus strain. There is no research question, no recruited cohort, no intervention, no primary or secondary outcome, and no statistical analysis. There is no finding here to act on.

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