Impact of long wave diathermy and DAPRE technique intervention on hamstring injury: A single case study

Abstract

Hamstring strain injuries are common among athletes and often require intensive rehabilitation to prepare athletes fora timely return to sport performance. Return to sport is typically achieved within weeks of the hamstring injury. But subsequent athlete performance may be impaired. Both rehabilitation and preventive measures are crucial but not standardized yet. On top of the standard rehabilitation program, it would be interesting to add safe treatment modalities which could speed up recovery from such an injury. In this article we present a young athlete with a large grade 1 hamstring injury which was treated with longwave diathermy and DAPRE technique. Although they can be biased, both treating physiotherapist as well as patient found that injury recovery went smoothly and quickly. The goal of this paper is to share this experience with other sports therapist and to invite the medical community to design randomized trials to confirm the clinical experience with this.