hamstring tendinosis...does it ever go away?

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try some arnica cream and graston, all the best man

Sparkystiltskin wrote:

Using this Video as a starting place, I've been doing the following stretch/exercise- and it's provided some relief.

Now my injured hammy was the Right, so I'll explain the exercise in terms of working on the right leg.

1) Lie on edge of bed so you are able to drop your left leg off the edge.

2) Hook right arm around your right elbow-pit is facing your knee-pit.

3) In the same motion i) pull your Right knee towards the space to the right of your head (as opposed to hugging your knee to your shoulder)

ii) keeping your Left leg straight, push the back of your Left knee down towards the ground.

4) Hold for 5-10 sec and release for 10

5) repeat but go deeper into the stretch.

Sparkystiltskin,

Don't know if you are still reading this thread. I suspect once people are healed, they stop reading the injury threads. But if you are, it would be great to see a video of this. I have the fredreckison article but it doesn't have this video. I'm trying to follow this but i can't picture it.

Here it is 2019. And I have been in pain for over 14 months. With a somewhat similar story. What is ART???

What started out as a back injury for me turned into hamstring pain. And since then I’ve done a lot of physeal therapy and I am ever so slowly getting better.

I cannot run still. And I and when I bake the hamstring pain increases. Been feeling a bit hopeless. And looking for some solutions and success stories.

If you are still around to reply it would be great to hear from

You.

I’ve actually been dealing with this injury for about the same time as you. I never got an official diagnosis, but I’m almost certain I’ve been dealing with tendinosis as well as a strain/tear.

The injury started off in just one leg, but after a few months of lopsided walking, I think I put too much stress on my other hamstring and strained it as well.

I first felt pain in May of last year while training and finally decided to call it quits a few weeks later at the end of June.

I thought it was just an aching hammy, but after a few months I tried jogging again and realized that wasn’t the case.

I started doing hip bridges and other eccentric stretches that September and began seeing immediate results, albeit at a much slower rate than other injuries. Usually I’d take things week by week as opposed to day by day.

Within two or three months the eccentric stretches stopped improving my condition, and that’s when I began to suspect some sort of tear. I hadn’t been stretching prior to this because I was scared to strain something again, but slowly incorporating basic stretches is what got me through the next few months prior.

7 months later and although I’m not fully healthy, I’m seeing great progress each week and am beginning to feel great strength coming back to the previously damaged hamstrings.

When the injury is at its worst, you can literally feel it when you press your hand on you hamstrings. As my hamstrings have gained back strength, not only are they not as sensitive, but I can also bear more weight with less consequence.

I got diagnosed with high hamstring tendonopthy in 2015 (never had it prior to that) i was quite injured to the point I couldn’t train right for a year and a half. Eventually I learned to run in a way that didn’t pressure my right hamstring but to this day 4 years later I still have a tight awkward discomfort after workouts and lint then. Without constant rolling and being tuned up i am screwed.

That’s exactly what I’m praying doesn’t happen. If so, I know I’m done running.

I came back really quickly to just summarize my long read.

I got hurt from overtraining. I’ve been dealing with tendinosis, but might also have a strain or tear. The tendinosis feels like tendinitis, almost an icy feeling on the tendons. The tear feels like scar tissue, a large mass that needs to be broken down.

Although the tendinosis got sorted out relatively quick through eccentric stretches, the strain/ tear has been the real burden, I think it’s because of how difficult it is for blood to circulate in that specific area.

Here’s how I recovered so far. I did each until I no longer saw results.

1. Eccentric stretches. Hip bridges, side-planks with a scissor thing, clamshells, and a few other exercises.

2. Sleep positioning/Pressure. Getting blood to flow to your upper hamstrings is difficult, I played around with different sleep positions for a few weeks and felt progress almost each night.

3. Stretches. Once the first two stopped yielding results, I began stretching. Two major stretches were extended toe touches

and a weird hamstring stretch I did.

4. Patience/ Passive treatment. At this point everything else seems more detrimental than helpful. I stand on my feet for nearly 8 hours every day at work, so I end up getting a nice wear on my legs by the end of the day. Once I lie down in bed I almost immediately feel my hamstrings healing. It sounds weird, but it’s always a hot sensation followed by a sharp sting, after laying for a few hours my legs almost always feel better.

I recently came across this post and am dealing with the same situation for a year now. I even got PRP and it never worked. I can run but it hurts if i push it too fast. I’ve done physical therapy and my mri showed no signs of a tear, or muscle atrophy and no edema. Si had an x-ray on my spine, that is also fine but yet thus pain won’t go away

How’s your hamstring ? I’ve had this problem for 2 years now. Mines exactly the same. I can run but when I pick up speed it starts to burn and stiffen which is painful. I can’t progress on my weights as my range of motion is limited. I’m still doing my daily exercises and running but nothing like I used to do.

I also had shockwave therapy, acupuncture and cortisone but nothing has worked. The only thing that helps is swimming.

I’m thinking of having the PRP I’ve heard some amazing results from that but you have to have couple of treatments.

Shockwave therapy. Takes roughly 4-6 treatment and about 6 months to really see great results, but it’s worked wonders.
10/10 would recommend.

Hello
I agree that shockwave therapy for a hamstring strain is the best option. Moreover, it is an advanced technology and has no side effects. My friend has practiced this for four months to recover from muscle strain.

Lol that's the first thing you should have done, more like 6 weeks.

Why do the morons on letsrun act like they're pros.