Table 1. Answers to the following question: “Rank from 1 to 14 all the previous criteria according to the importance you assign to them in your daily medical practice (1 = the most important RTP criteria after hamstring strain – 14 = the less important RTP criteria after hamstring strain”).
| Ranking |
Return-to-play criteria |
| 1 |
Complete pain relief |
| 2 |
Muscle strength performance |
| 3 |
Subjective feeling reported by the player |
| 4 |
Muscle flexibility |
| 5 |
Specific soccer test performance |
| 6 |
Respect of a theoretical period of competition break |
| 7 |
Running analysis |
| 8 |
Physical fitness |
| 9 |
Balance control assessment |
| 10 |
Medical imaging |
| 11 |
Dynamic functional testing performance |
| 12 |
Correction of potential sacroiliac or lumbar joint dysfunction |
| 13 |
Other |
| 14 |
Quadriceps – Hamstrings EMG analysis |