I had my eval. with a physical therapist today. He came to the conclusion that I didn’t tear it, but had a mild strain. He recommended that I do light pain free stretching, running and machine lifting. All below pain level. He also recommended that I do not push the running for 1 month and certainly no sprinting for 2 months. He then told me that I can manage this all from home and don’t need to come in for therapy.
Thoughts, opinions? If it is just mild, why 2 months before sprinting? I’m very, very, very stubborn and don’t know if I can wait that long. Let alone more than 2 weeks.
Get a new therapist. IN a few days get some massage. You could also get some ultra sound. There is now reason to kill a season for a mild strain. You need aggressive therapy, not stay home and do nothing therapy. I have a guy that does stretches. I Tore my quad and I mean ripped it up and he got me back in about a month. Had a strained hammy he got me back in 2 weeks.
Yeah, I’m exploring other options, I was pretty pissed off when I left today. When he told me how long I should stay away from intense workouts I was thinking (yeah, that’s gonna work). It was really just a waste of time.
The mild strain I got last year took me 2 weeks to recover from and one more week to be racing again. It was right at the beginning of my comp season.
The one I had sounds more severe then the one you have, so I dont see why 2 months would be needed. The one thing that helped was that I allowed it to heal while doing some sport specific activities. So as soon as I could jog I did, as soon as I could do some drills I did, as soon as I could do some light strides I did ect…
One thing leads to another and bam you’re back at it while of course being cautious.
And a good chiro/massage therapist will do wonders. I had some ART and massage to help the recovery process and break up the scar tissue.
I just can’t see why it would be as long. Sure it’s sore when I do things with it. I know I can’t sprint with pain, but I believe I can run at 75% or a hair faster. I know anything that involves a sprint will not be comfortable, but 2 months. Quite a joke. I’ll probably take one more day away and then try to do a workout at tempo or ext. tempo pace on Thursday.
I’m just not sure how to attack the lifting. i want to squat and do cleans.
I’d probably start with a long warm-up before doing a full ext. tempo workout. I’d also be really careful about coming back so quickly if you don’t have therapy (massage/ART/etc.) to assist you. It is a lot easier to come back when you’re getting some sort of manual therapy–if you don’t, you could very well re-injure the area (extremely common).
What are your thoughts on this? The relation of hamstring injuries with sprints and RDLs? I had a coach tell last year that he had read an article talking RDLs causing hamstring injuries? I don’t agree with it, but I had been doing them 1x per week. I’m just curious if any of you had heard that.
I think it would depend on when in relation to your sprint training the RDLs are being done. If you do heavy RDLs and then do sprints on sore/tight hammies on the same or the next day that would probably predispose to injuries. I would personally try to do those lifts that target the hamstrings as long before the next maxV session as possible.
I did my RDLs on Monday’s workout, not having max v till Thursday and racing on Sunday. I am going to try to do a warm up today and a med ball circuit and see how I feel. It feels okay now so I’m interested to see how it will feel tonight during the warm up. I am also going to start using a foam rollers for some manual therapy since I can’t afford massages, etc right now. Well, I can, I just don’t want to anger my wife.
I’ve read that Ben hit the upper body hard in order to help maintain some CNS qualities while injured. Max strength and power for upper body could be useful.
I was able to get a warm up in today. I did a tempo warm up with some jogging, skips, lunges. I also did some static and dynamic exercises and two accels. They were light and i felt very little pain. I was honestly thinking of doing a workout tomorrow and seeing how it feels. Thoughts? Stupid?
Why would you try to simulate flying sprints on a bike? I know your hamstring is recovering, but I don’t think bike sprints will confer any of the benefits of regular flies.
You’d probably be better off doing a very light mobility circuit, just to keep you loose.
Rest the hamstring man. If you had an injury, it probably indicates you need to give it a bit of rest.
I actually do think bike workouts are good though. I’d go for 20-30 seconds as fast as possible with ~2 minutes in between (double the # of reps you would do of flies) to stimulate some aspects of top speed. That is a protocol similar to what Dan Pfaff did (he says) with success w/ Obadele Thompson.