Peer-reviewedCC BYLife (Basel, Switzerland)30 Sep 2026

Eccentric Hamstring Strength and Instrumented Anterior Knee Laxity in Professional Male Football Players: A Cross-Sectional Study

Georgios Kakavas¹
Nicola Maffulli²
Vasileios Korakakis³
Nikolaos Malliaropoulos⁴
Florian Forelli⁵

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¹Fysiotek Spine & Sports Lab, 17562 Athens, Greece
²Centre for Sports and Exercise Medicine, , London E1 4DG, UK
³Department of Health Sciences, School of Life Sciences and Health Sciences, PhD in Physiotherapy Program, , 2417 Nicosia, Cyprus
⁴Sports Clinic, Rheumatology Department, , London E1 1BB, UK
⁵Haute-Ecole Arc Santé, , 2800 Delémont, Switzerland

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@article{kakavas2026eccentric,
  title = {{Eccentric Hamstring Strength and Instrumented Anterior Knee Laxity in Professional Male Football Players: A Cross-Sectional Study}},
  author = {Georgios Kakavas and Nicola Maffulli and Vasileios Korakakis and Nikolaos Malliaropoulos and Florian Forelli},
  journal = {Life (Basel, Switzerland)},
  year = {2026},
  month = sep,
  url = {https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC13706045},
  note = {CC BY},
}

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TY  - JOUR
TI  - Eccentric Hamstring Strength and Instrumented Anterior Knee Laxity in Professional Male Football Players: A Cross-Sectional Study
AU  - Georgios Kakavas
AU  - Nicola Maffulli
AU  - Vasileios Korakakis
AU  - Nikolaos Malliaropoulos
AU  - Florian Forelli
PY  - 2026
DA  - 2026/09/30
JO  - Life (Basel, Switzerland)
UR  - https://europepmc.org/article/PMC/PMC13706045
SN  - 2075-1729
ER  -

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