A left gastrocnemius strain was sustained by an elite cricket batsman while he was taking off to run. The exact moment of injury, captured by a camera in the middle stump, appears to correspond to the ...

If considerable resistance prevents the clinician from obtaining 10 degrees of dorsiflexion, then a contracture of the gastrocnemius muscle exists (Figure 4a). The knee is then flexed to relax the ...

A limitation to the accurate study of muscle injuries and their management has been the lack of a uniform approach to the categorisation and grading of muscle injuries. The goal of this narrative ...