Can heavy deadlifts cure hamstring tendinopathy?

Go the easy route and get into wheelchair racing. I clean up the victories in local and locally=big road races. Seriously.

The answer is no. It won't help. Nordics MIGHT. Maybe. But if you really wanted to solve it you'd have to dig SUPER deep into research and take a multifaceted approach. A world class elite physio could probably help you fix it, but good luck finding one.

Heavy isos and eccentrics will purify the tendies

I'm really bad at nordic curls. I can hold it a third of the way down for about 5 seconds.

Can you give any examples?

Well for God's sake, there you go. You cant do them because you're hammy doesn't work right. You have to work at the Nordics and thats an avenue to essentially rehabbing your hammys to work right. Look up Nordic progressing and stick with that for a while. Once you get more functional with your Nordic, you just might find that your hammy hurts less, or not st all, while running.

If you really wanna fix it you have to do the work. Get to it.

Don't go this route. Deadlifts, Nordic curls, etc. this is just trying to toughen your body so you can run badly a bit more before injuring yourself again

The real answer is you need to change your running form a bit. This is the harder way, but it pays off. It did for me. You need to stop swinging your leg out in front of you when you run. You need to stop over striding.. get some video of yourself running on a treadmill. There is a bunch of stuff online about correcting overstriding. It's not easy to change the habit but you can do it.

I had similar issues for a year and a half. I thought it was HHT but it in fact turned out to be a combo of sciatic adhesion(caused by multiple previous strains and a tear) and weak hamstrings. I had a hydrodissection done and began lifting heavy along with nordics. It sucked in the beginning 2mo, but I’ve now been completely pain free for almost 2yr.

just wanted to give my experience in the off chance that it helps you. This was at the D1 level

Why on gods green earth wouldn't you want to do BOTH. Multifaceted approach. Throw EVERYTHING at it. It'd be nice if one trick worked, but with something chronic, putting all your eggs in one basket is almost guaranteed to fail.

I’d also stay away from the doomist posts on here. Most injuries can be rehabbed by taking it easy, seeing a doctor/PT, and progressing in targeted exercises.

single leg rdl, 5 second eccentric. heavy. wont feel good, will help

As mentioned earlier, nordics and eccentrics are a big part of the program. The key is to be patient and not get into fast-paced stuff too quickly after you return to running.

Keep up with the nordics and hamstring curls after you heal to keep things balanced and strong. Once you recover from the injury you can build strength in the hamstrings with heavier deadlifts or RDLs. I wouldn't recommend lifting heavy with the hamstrings until you've made a full recovery.

Avoid Nordic hamstring curls. They will cause more issues. First and foremost, go to a knowledgeable running PT. if you cannot do that, you will need to experiment a bit with what works based on your injury. Kettlebell swings, deadlifts, single leg RDLs.

1,000% this.

I stopped lifting consistently for a few years, developed HHT. I mostly cured it with heavy RDLs in like 1 month. I did other hip mobility and strengthening stuff and band stuff too, but I was already doing a lot of that before.

Nordics are good, but RDLs are more of a compound exercise, and issues like this are often multi-faceted, that is, your glutes and abductors and adductors and flexors are likely part of the issue.