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Is Hamstring Tightness Correlated to Low Back Pain in Young Athletes? - #AMR394
If you treat young athletes, you have seen this note a hundred times. A 14-year-old gets referred for low back pain, and somewhere in the orthopedic report is the phrase "hamstring tightness," presented as if it settles the question. Tight hamstrings, tilted pelvis, cranky back. Case closed. Go stretch.
It's a tidy story. It's also the kind of story that survives because it sounds mechanical and nobody stops to check it. And when you actually look at what the research says, the picture gets a lot more complicated in a way that should change how you evaluate these kids.
Start with the obvious…
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