FC Bayern Munich, one of the most successful German football clubs has been coping with muscle injuries for quite some time. Consequently, they have implemented the TMG S1 system into their daily routine in order to reduce muscle injuries by optimizing their training protocols.

Hamstring injuries represent one of the most frequent muscle injuries not only in the NFL but also in other explosive sports, such as sprint. Hamstring injuries usually occur during full-speed sprinting or when some other force overstretches one or more hamstring muscles. They are especially frequent when the athletes do not perform a proper warm up prior to the activity or because of an overuse.
Hamstring injuries are problematic as it is very difficult to fully rest hamstrings and furthermore they require long-term rehabilitation. Consequently, many athletes continue with their training routine regardless of the fact that their hamstrings have strains, which leads to an even worse injury. Once a hamstring muscle is injured, a re-injury is very likely to happen if the rehabilitation is not sufficient and a special training protocol is not implemented.

Tensiomyography (TMG) is a noninvasive means of evaluating a muscle’s ability to contract/relax. By examining the contractile profile of a muscle group, TMG provides individualized data on muscle symmetry and firing velocities. The information obtained is used to evaluate and optimize the training or rehabilitation process and helps coaches to prevent hamstring injuries and optimize the rehabilitation process.

PFC Ludogorets Razgrad is a Bulgarian football club, which is in the top division of the Bulgarian football league. TMG recently became a part of their training routine, as it helps them to optimize and individualize their training protocols.

As a part of our research collaboration with MASS General Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston, we will organize a 3-hour workshop, at which the TMG benefits for sports medicine will be presented. The main focus will be on the hamstring muscle injuries and Pitcher’s Elbow. The workshop will take place on the 4th of June, 2015. In order to secure your participation, please make the reservation here.

There are several terminology and classification consensuses that have been published in the recent years (O’Donoghue, Ryan, Takebayashi, Peetrons, Stoller, Chang, Munich and Pollock). Initially, classifications were based on clinical signs or imaging, but more recent classifications are based on the combination of the two. Leading experts in the field of muscle injuries have developed a consensus statement in which muscle injuries are divided into two groups: functional muscle disorders and structural muscle injuries.

While there are many diagnostic devices available for providing relevant information about structural damage in the muscle, there are not many objective diagnostic systems that can evaluate functional muscle disorders. We believe that TMG as the leading methodology for objective evaluation of functional muscle disorders, proven by more than 50 football clubs worldwide, enables precise diagnostics of functional muscle disorders and monitoring of their rehabilitation.

We are proud to announce that we have established a long-term collaboration with 3M in order to provide a state of the art solution for core-body temperature monitoring – the TMG Tracker endorsed by 3M! At the upcoming Rio 2016 Olympics, the management of hyperthermia will play a crucial part of an athlete’s performance. The TMG Tracker that reaches the accuracy of the golden standard of the Pulmonary Artery approach and is the most athlete-friendly solution available at a moment will enable athletes and their coaches to effectively adapt to Rio’s harsh climate. Click here to find more information on the TMG Tracker endorsed by 3M.

An eminent sport medicine clinic from Duesseldorf has recently acquired our TMG S1 system for evaluating functional muscle disorders, which confirms the fact that TMG is the leading tool for objective evaluation of functional muscle disorders.

The elite training facility Gazprom Arena has added the TMG diagnostic system on the list of their high-end diagnostic equipment. With the help of TMG, they will refine the training protocols of athletes and use TMG’s monitoring capabilities to optimize the rehabilitation processes.

TMG has been presented as the useful method to monitor functional recovery of the muscles and return to play decisions in the Muscle Injuries Clinical Guide 3.0 released in January 2015 by FC Barcelona, Aspetar and FIFA Medical Centres of Excellence. The guide presents tools and reveals particular experience of some leading experts in the field of muscle injuries management and their prevention.

The eminent ASPIRE Academy for Sports Excellence from Qatar has added the TMG S1 system to their range of diagnostic equipment used for training optimization and rehabilitation monitoring. We are confident that the system will enrich the insight of their experts into the muscle function and support their decisions.