{"id":13796,"date":"2025-04-28T17:54:41","date_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/hamstring-injuries-are-premier-league-hanstring-injuries-getting-worse\/"},"modified":"2025-04-28T17:54:41","modified_gmt":"2025-04-28T17:54:41","slug":"hamstring-injuries-are-premier-league-hanstring-injuries-getting-worse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/hamstring-injuries-are-premier-league-hanstring-injuries-getting-worse\/","title":{"rendered":"Hamstring injuries: Are Premier League hanstring injuries getting worse?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><b class=\"ssrcss-1xjjfut-BoldText e5tfeyi3\">The rate of hamstring injuries in the Premier League is set to decrease this season compared to the 2023\/24 campaign, although data shows players are being ruled out for longer.<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/c74zyd932neo\" class=\"ssrcss-k8mrr8-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\">Marcus Rashford&#8217;s injury<\/a> is the 124th of its kind this season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">With an average of four hamstring injuries recorded every game week &#8211; and with four weekends of the season left &#8211; this total could rise to 140.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">This trails last season&#8217;s total of 163.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Ben Dinnery, injury analyst and founder of Premier Injuries Ltd, believes the data shows an overall &#8216;static&#8217; trend of muscle injuries &#8211; specifically hamstrings &#8211; in recent years, although the severity of hamstring injuries appears to be getting worse, with players being kept out for longer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In 2023-24, more than half (52%) of hamstring-related injuries kept players sidelined long term, for more than 30 days.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">In the 2022-23 and 2020-21 seasons, these figures were 46% and 30%, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">As of 1 January 2025, data showed that 52% of hamstring injuries in the Premier League were &#8216;long term&#8217; &#8211; the same percentage as the 2023-24 season &#8211; but with five months of the season left to play.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Arsenal duo Bukayo Saka and Kai Havertz, and Chelsea striker Nicholas Jackson are three high-profile players who have experienced &#8216;long-term&#8217; hamstring injuries this season.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/football\/articles\/cjr7g54n319o\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The rate of hamstring injuries in the Premier League is set to decrease this season compared to the 2023\/24 campaign, although data shows players are being ruled out for longer. Marcus Rashford&#8217;s injury is the 124th of its kind this season. With an average of four hamstring injuries recorded every game week &#8211; and with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13796","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13798,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13796\/revisions\/13798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}