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Chiropractic Osteopathy BioMedCentral Case report Open Access Successful management of hamstring injuries in Australian Rules footballers: two case reports Wayne T Hoskins* and Henry P Pollard Address: Macquarie Injury Management Group, Department of Health Chiropractic, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Australia Email: Wayne T Hoskins* - waynehoskins@.au; Henry P Pollard - hpollard@.au * Corresponding author Published: 12 April 2005 Received: 08 April 2005 Accepted: 12 April 2005 Chiropractic Osteopathy 2005, 13:4 doi:10.1186/1746-1340-13-4 This article is available from: /content/13/1/4 ? 2005 Hoskins and Pollard; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. hamstringtreatmentsports injurychiropracticmanipulationfootball Abstract Hamstring injuries are the most prevalent injury in Australian Rules football. There is a lack of evidence based literature on the treatment, prevention and management of hamstring injuries, although it is agreed that the etiology is complicated and multi-factorial. We present two cases of hamstring injury that had full resolution after spinal manipulation and correction of lumbar-pelvic biomechanics. There was no recurrence through preventative treatment over a twelve and sixteen week period. The use of spinal manipulation for treatment or prevention of hamstring injury has not been documented in sports medicine literature and should be further investigated in prospective randomized controlled trials. Introduction tors for future injury is a current hamstring injury or a pre- vious history of hamstring injury [1,9]. This makes prevention of the initial injury a primary focus in manage- ment efforts. The purpose of this paper is to pre