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Chronic Hamstring Problems in Sprinters: Management and Recovery
Hamstring Pull Recovery: The Rehab, Part 1
This is part 6 of a multi-part series on hamstring pulls and rehabilitation.
I discussed hamstring pulls in several past articles:
- Hamstring Pulls: Gerard Mach Revisited
- How to Recover a Hamstring Pull: Eccentric Loading (featured guest article)
- Hamstring Injuries, the Iliopsoas and Imbalances
- Controversial Hamstring Workout for Rehab
- Rehab for Hamstring Pulls and Strains
At Speed Endurance. I like to give real-life examples of how people really train, and not
present vague PowerPoint slides.
Before I moved to Europe in 2009. I had a track team with Derek Hansen back in Vancouver.
Derek and I put a lot of our conference material at http://www.strengthpowerspeed.com/store/
with more to come.
Our club was fairly successful given the size, our facilities, and inclement weather
conditions. One was a Bobsledder that represented Canada at the 2006 Torino Winter
Olympics. And one was a sprinter that won a bronze medal at the 2006 Commonwealth
Games 4x100m relay.
So in this article, or should I say diary, we go back to 2008 when our Bobsledder. Steve
Larsen, pulled his hamstring.
Hamstring Rehabilitation and Running Mechanics
Written by Derek Hansen
In 2008. I had the opportunity to do some hamstring rehab work on an athlete. I had worked
with in the past. Most noteworthy was he had been training another city for the past year.
And had torn his hamstring in a 30-meter sprint test. Four days later. He eventually made it
back to my city and we had to undergo some pretty intensive hamstring rehabilitation. He
had four weeks to be ready for his first competition (bobsled).
This would have been more than enough time for us to work with him. While having worked
with sprinters and speed athletes for some time. It was pretty familiar territory for me. Yet I
had no doubt that we would successfully rehab him in time for him to compete in top
condition. It is important to note that the process we undertook is no different from the
framework I outlined in an article titled Rehab and Dating Success on my site
http://www.runningmechanics.com/.
The first day he was back under my supervision. We started with evaluation and observation.
Simply speaking with the athlete and asking him about the injury and how it feels. Standing,
walking, sitting, getting out of bed in the morning, etc. Can yield a lot of useful information.
Given that we were five days out from the initial injury. Inflammation was not a significant
concern for us. It was more about determining the athlete’s level of mobility and comfort.
[Jimson’s note: If you pull your left hamstring, try getting into the driver’s seat of a low
sports car. If you pull your right hamstring, try getting into the passenger side. Report your
findings to your coach.]
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Build Indestructible Hamstrings
Q: Joe,
I’m a high school and future college football player. Over the past two years, I’ve pulled both
of my hamstrings a couple of times. They’re all healed except one of them kind of lingers.
I’ve done PT and other kinds of stretches and exercises that I have found but it doesn’t seem
to go away for some reason.
The hammy that I’m having trouble with was injured about two months ago. And I don’t want
to have this going to college… I was hoping that you might have some additional tips or
video recommendations that might help me. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
-Cody McGuffie
A: Cody,
If you want to build indestructible hamstrings. There’s only one thing you gotta do!! Check
out the video below and all your problems will be solved…
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