Professional paper

REHABILITATION OF CROATIAN SOLDIERS SUFFERING FROM THE HAMSTRINGS SYNDROME

Blanka MATANOVIĆ ; Polyclinic Institution for Rheumatic Diseases, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Zagreb, Croatia
M. ČULJAK ; Polyclinic Institution for Rheumatic Diseases, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Zagreb, Croatia
R. HABUŠ ; Polyclinic Institution for Rheumatic Diseases, Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Zagreb, Croatia

Abstract

The llamstings Syndrome (a syndrome of overstanding the muscles on the back
side of the thigh) usually appears in sprinters, high jumpers and hurdlers.
Out of fifty Croatian soldiers, treated in the Polyclinic Institution for l{heumalic
Diseases, Physical Medicine ami Rehabilitation in Zagreb who showed the sympornatology
of the spi ne pain syndrome, we selected ten soldiers who showed syrnpt.oms diffe rent from
classic lurnboishialgia caused by extraordinary exertion.
Our objective was lo set the exact diagnosis in cases of atypicallumboishialgia.
The methods were: a detailed anam11esis of the injury i.e. the symptoms, functional
tests of the lumbosacral spi ne and kinesiologicaltests for the overstraining syndrome.
The anamnestic examination showed the following facts: six out of ten soldiers were
i nj ured on the baulefied (two while leaping over trenches and fo ur while jumping out of a
military transporter), and four were i nj ured on the driling-grounds one of them was inj ured
while high-j umping, two while long jumping, and one while running.
At the beginning of the treatment, both the Well test and the Wallace test were
positive in ten subjects, and the "doormat test" was positive in eight subjects. Upon the end
of the treatment in 80 o/o of the cases tests were negative, and in 20% only partially
positive.
We can conclude that in cases of aty pical lumboishialgia caused by injuries we
should pay attention to the other entities as well, such as the l lamstrings Syndrome. The
above diagnosis was confinned by the use of <:ertain kinesiological tests, stretehing
exercises as well as the exercises for s trengthening the hamstrings muscles.

Keywords

Atipicallumboishijalgija; hamstring syndrome; diagnosis

Hrčak ID:

141960

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/141960

Publication date:

2.12.1997.

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