Author biographies

This special issue of the Journal of Sport and Health Science (JSHS) is focused on Hamstring muscle strain injury edited by Drs. Bing Yu and Li Li. It includes 2 parts: Part I includes 1 editorial, 2 opinion, and 4 commentary articles that have been published in June 2017, formed a debate on the possible mechanisms of hamstring muscle strain injuries; Part II includes 1 editorial, 2 review, and 3 original articles that are published in the current issue, on prevention and rehabilitation—risk factors, classi fication, and time to return to sports. The research scientists are from the USA, Australia, Canada, China, etc. Below, we present the biographies of the guest editors and main authors for each of these articles.

Dr. Bing Yu obtained his BS from Beijing Sport University in 1982, MS from Kansas State University in 1988, and PhD in exercise science from University of Iowa in 1993. He completed his post-doctoral research in the Orthopedic Biomechanics Laboratory at Mayo Clinic and Foundation in 1996. He is a professor in Division of Physical Therapy at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include biomechanics of sports injury, musculoskeletal system modeling, and biomechanics of sports techniques. He received over 40 research grants on biomechanics of sports injuries and performance. He served in several study sections in National Institute of Health and Center for Disease Control. He has over 100 research publications in peer reviewed journals.

Dr. Walter Herzog is a full professor in the faculties of Kinesiology, Engineering, Medicine, and Veterinary Medicine. He is the Canada Research Chair for Molecular and Cellular Biomechanics, the Killam Memorial Research Chair at the University, and the co-director of the Human Performance Laboratory. He is the Borelli Award winner of the American Society of Biomechanics, The Career Award winner for the Canadian Society for Biomechanics, and gave the president’s lecture for the American College of Sport Medicine and the International Society of Biomechanics. His research interests are in basic and applied musculoskeletal biomechanics with focus on the mechanisms of muscle contraction and joint injuries and diseases. He has published 6 textbooks on biomechanics, has presented more than 200 keynote and invited lectures at national and international scientific meetings, and has published more than 450 scientific peer-reviewed journal papers. He is the co-editor-in-chief of JSHS (2011— present).

Dr. Yu Liu is a distinguished professor of Chang Jiang Scholars Program, awarded by the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China. He serves as the Dean of the School of Kinesiology, Shanghai University of Sport. He received his BS in human movement science from Beijing Sport University in 1982 and his PhD in biomechanics from the University of Frankfurt am Main in 1992. He completed his postdoctoral fellowship at the German Sport University, Cologne. His research focuses on neuromuscular control of human movement, biomechanics of injuries, and footwear. He has served as an executive council member of the International Society of Biomechanics, as vice president of the Asia Association of Coaching Science, and as a member of the standing committee of the Chinese Association of Biomechanics. He has published more than 150 peerreviewed articles in English or Chinese. Currently, he serves on the editorial board of several national and international journals, including China Sport Science and the JSHS.

Dr. Thomas Best is a professor of orthopedics, family medicine, biomedical engineering, and kinesiology from the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Coral Gables, Florida, USA. He is the research director of the UHealth Sports Medicine Institute and serves as a team physician at both the collegiate and professional levels. He is a past-president of the American College of Sports Medicine and serves on a number of advisory boards. His research interests include the early diagnosis and management of osteoarthritis as well as the basic science and clinical evidence for massage-based therapies. Dr. Best is the associate editor-in-chief of Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise and the co-editor of the book Evidence-Based Sports Medicine.

Dr. Marc A. Sherry is a physical therapist and athletic trainer. His clinical practice specializes in pediatric ACL injuries, hamstring strain injuries, UCL injuries and youth sports injuries. In addition to direct patient care, he manages the Sports Rehabilitation Department at the University of Wisconsin Sports Medicine Center. He was instrumental in designing and operationalizing a 28,000 square foot sports rehab and performance facility for University of Wisconsin Hospitals and Clinics. He graduated from the University of Wisconsin – La Crosse Physical Therapy program in 1994 and received his DPT from Massachusetts General Hospital Institute of Health Professions in 2009. He is also a licensed athletic trainer, certified strength and conditioning specialist and a performance enhancement specialist. His research is primarily focused on hamstring injuries and rehabilitation.

Dr. John Orchard is an Australian non-surgical sport and exercise medicine physician with a combination career in professional sport and sports administration, clinical sports medicine practice and research. His main area of clinical specialisation is in muscle and tendon injuries of the lower limb. In research, he has an adjunct professor appointment through the School of Public Health at the University of Sydney, with general research stream being sports injury epidemiology and prevention and over 100 publications. He was the chief medical officer for the 2015 Cricket World Cup and continues to work as the chief medical officer for Cricket Australia. He has 20 years of experience working in various professional football codes. He has been on the editorial board for both the American Journal of Sports Medicine and British Journal of Sports Medicine for the past decade.

Dr. Hui Liu obtained her BS, MS, and PhD in Biomechanics from Beijing Sport University. She is a professor in Biomechanics Teaching and Research Section at Beijing Sport University. She is serving as the vice president of Education in China Society of Sports Biomechanics. Her research interests include biomechanics of sports techniques, biomechanics of sports injury, and biomechanics of sports equipment design. She served as the principal investigator in many research projects, and received over 20 research grants on biomechanics of sports performance, injuries and equipment design. She had over 50 publications in peer reviewed journals, over 70 abstracts in conference proceedings, and 7 book chapters.

Craig Perrin is a PhD student at Southampton Solent University. His research interests surround the causation of hamstring strain injuries, and the potential role of the lumbar extensors to influence performance. His PhD aims to establish whether the fatigue of the lumbar and hip extensors during the simulation of soccer could alter sprint kinematics and perhaps impair performance.

his PhD in exercise science from University of Massachusetts – Amherst. He started working at Louisiana State University (LSU) in 1998, teaching and researching on topics related to biomechanics. He initiated LSU peripheral neuropathy studies in 2004, and has been working on related projects until now. In addition to his appointment in the Department of Kinesiology while at LSU, he is currently a research professor at Georgia Southern University. He was the chair of Biomechanics Interested Group of American College of Sports Medicine (2008—2009), president of International Chinese Society of Physical Activities and Health (2010—2011). In addition to serving as reviewer for more than a dozen peer reviewed scientific journals, he is one of the founding editorial board members of the JSHS (2011— present), long time editorial board member for one of the best movement science journal—Journal of Kinesiology and Electromyography (2001— present), and Biomechanics Section editor of the oldest kinesiological journal in the world—Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sports (2010—2014). He is an active fellow of (American) National Academy of Kinesiology since 2014.