I'm a sprinter and I pulled my hamstring which basically felt like a series of short sharp pains (I stopped running immediately in the rep I was on). This was last night and today it still feels a bit painful. Last night I iced it for ages (on and off).
This is my plan:
rest it or just do some gentle walking
ice (10 mins on/10 mins off) for a few hrs a day
buy a compression thing for my upper thigh
take some ibuprofen
Does anyone have anything to add? Thank you... this is worrying me a bit.
I'm not a doctor, but IMO:
* I'm not sure you need to take Ibuprofen. The hamstring (like other major muscles) has a good blood supply, so it usually heals quire well with just rest. If you're going to use Ibuprofen, make sure you stop taking it before doing any training -- otherwise there is a risk of making it worse by running too fast before the injury has healed.
* You can probably start jogging fairly soon, but don't even think of doing any sprinting until you feel absolutely no discomfort while joggging/running. Get back to faster running gradually.
* Don't stretch the hamstring too much.
It hurts on walking so I won't be stretching it any time soon. I may give the ibuprofen a miss then. Thanks for the input.
don't ice too much. you might want to try heat as well. and yeah make sure the pain is gone before you try to run fast again, maybe try a bike first. i slightly pulled my hamstring freshman year but i ignored it and kept training because it wasn't that serious. i ran like shit for the whole year because it never really healed.
I just re-injured my hamstring after hurting it last summer. don't stretch and stay off it for at least 3 days. like the previous poster stated, the chance for re-injury is much greater if it has not healed sufficiently. after a few days of start back slow.
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