Hamstring strain assessment and prevention research

Price Warren is a Sports Physiotherapist (APA titled) and a Master of Physiotherapy (Hamstring Strains AFL Football-original research-Centre for Health, Exercise and Sports Medicine, University of Melbourne).

He is a member of Sports Medicine Australia , the Musculoskeletal Physiotherapy Association and is a past president and ongoing member of Sports Physiotherapy Australia. Price was physiotherapist to the Richmond Football Club (1988-89) and Melbourne Football Club (1991-1999). His hamstring strain research involved scientific collaboration with Victoria House Radiology and Monash University.

Price is one of the few physiotherapists in clinical practice to have scientific manuscripts published in 2 of the most prestigious peer reviewed Sports Medicine journals in the world.

Price has assessed, treated and rehabilitated many hundreds of hamstring injured athletes due to his frequent invitations to liaise with and lecture to Australia’s most senior Sports Physicians and Sports Physiotherapists, many associated with elite teams (Australian Rugby Union Team, Brumbies Rugby Union Team, The Socceroos, Brisbane Bronchos, AFL teams, Gold Coast United etc).

Price Warren is available to run workshops or lecture to your physiotherapy or medical clinic or organization on muscle or hamstring injuries or hamstring injury prevention / rehab etc. He is also consults, treats/advises athletes and patients online (e.g. via Skype) – for optimal results this is done in conjunction with the treating practitioner.

Clinical predictors of time to return to competition and of recurrence following hamstring strain in elite Australian footballers (Published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine, 2008).

A Comparison Between Clinical Assessment and Magnetic Resonance Imaging of Acute Hamstring Injuries (Published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, 2006).

The influence of rehabilitation factors on recurrence of hamstring injury in elite Australian footballers