A hamstring injury can derail progress on the court, in the gym or just getting around. If you know HOW the hamstring works, you may be able to come back sooner than later and be back running around before you know it.
When we understand the hamstring works in conjunction with a few other muscles, like the calves and glutes, we can start to figure out who wasn’t helping out and who was, to them develop a strategy for success.
You will generally see sprinters in Track and Field go down with hamstring injuries. You’ll see armchair athletes do the same thing when positioning for fantasy football drafts.
The proper thing to do to help heal an iffy hamstring is to see where it went wrong on the first place and why. If you can help improve quality of movement so that the hamstring works well WITH its friends, you can help ensure it is less likely to happen again.
In the meantime, allowing the tissue to regenerate and heal, helping surrounding muscles allow the hamstring to do the hamstrings job, and increasing your overall ability to accelerate, decelerate and have good most ability is essential for moving the way you want to move through life.
What we do at Tony Cress Training Center in Las Vegas is follow the philosophy of Applied Functional Science, 3DMAPS and the laws of Human Movement. We learned a lot through the Gray Institute and how the body moves with regards to gravity, which all of us experience as well as the ground or environment we are in.
With the principles of the human body and gravity and ground reaction forces, we can have an understanding of WHY a hamstring does what it does, did what it did, and how to help it not do that again:)
If you have struggled with a muscular injury, have back pain or bad shoulder issues, we can help you get back to performing the way you were meant to!