Abstract
This chapter describes the common presentations of muscle strains in the lower limb, beginning from the groin and sports hernias and ending with plantaris strains of the lower leg. Each muscle group and compartment presented in this chapter presents with its most common injury and most common muscle: the biceps femoris of the hamstring, the rectus femoris of the quadriceps, and the gastrocnemius muscle of the calf. In addition to these commonly presented injuries, the chapter commences with an understanding of grading of muscle strains in anatomical, clinical, and imaging description.
Keywords
- Sports hernias
- Athletic pubalgia
- Quadriceps injuries
- Hamstring injuries
- Calf injuries
- Grade of muscle strains
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Hatzantoni, K., Khan, W.S. (2020). Lower Limb Muscle Strains. In: Iyer, K., Khan, W. (eds) Orthopedics of the Upper and Lower Limb. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43286-7_24
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