Pain In The Hamstring
Hamstring consist of three muscle behind your thigh (biceps femoris, semitendinosus and semimembranosus) and the muscles run from the butt bone all the way to bones behind the knee.
Causes of hamstring pain:
– Extra stress on the muscles and tendons from people who are active in sports – running, football, baseball, skiing, weight lifting, climbing
– From not warming up the muscles
– Muscle imbalance between the quads (muscle of the thigh and the hamstring)
– Different length of the leg – one shorter from the other
In This Video You Will Find Out:
– More causes of the pain
– Two technique I use to relief the pain
– Why the technique works
Transcript for Today’s Video:
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Hi welcome to StressoutStressFree.com my name is Vincent Woon. In this video I’m going to share with you a question from a YouTuber who hurt his hamstring from doing a split.
Alright let’s take a look at what else can cause a pain in the hamstring, you could be doing too much on the muscle, you could have a hip flexor, probably a weak glutes or butt muscle and also poor flexibility, fatigue in the muscles or muscle imbalances between the quads which is the muscle in the front and the hamstring, the muscle the back of your thigh.
Let me show you how to loosen up the pain. Here! First you need to find a railing or something like this where you can put your leg on it. The idea of this to work on the muscle which is work on the hamstring. Let’s pretend this is the leg, the hamstring is here. The muscle goes from the top to the bottom, from the butt bone to the leg. So the pain is normally from here to all the way down, the hamstring the whole hamstring area. So what you do is, you do cross fiber breaking down the tissue. This way, rub it down, rub against the fiber, across the fiber like this.
So what you need to do is put your leg up there and rub down this way. Start from where your butt bone is and rub this way, this way. As you stretch make sure it’s not too painful and you rub into the pain area and make sure you adjust to your pain threshold. So this way and the other technique is to press into it, press into it and then stretch a little bit like such.
Lift ahead your leg, down this way and press into the pain area and then you push back a little bit, see how I push the knee back a little bit. Go forward push back a little bit, move your hand up a little, forward, backward, follow the pain area, just press on it and then stretch, press on it bend your knee and then stretch. As you do that the pain will loosen up and the tightness in the area will loosen up.
Next thing you need to do is look for a stairwell/staircase and almost the same as the other stretch. Let’s put your leg up, straight this way and bend your knee and then you can rub on
the muscle, same way across the muscle, rub on it, rub cross fiber, target the pain area. And then you move one step down, and do the same thing. What you are doing is you are extending the stretch and then rework on it again. As the muscle loosen up you can stretch more or you can put your leg further up like this and forward so that you get a better stretch to loosen up the area.
With the same technique that we used earlier, you can press on the muscle and stretch like such, bend your knee forward push in the muscle and you can push backwards or your can put your leg forward a little bit and then you put press, bend your knee stretch backwards, bend your knee stretch backwards. Move the positioning of your hand and stretch, stretch, press on it and stretch, press on it and stretch.
To finish up, put your leg up and do a like a cuddle rub, like this way onto the muscle. The muscle is here you do it with both hands left, right, left, right like a cuddle or a hugging rub to the muscle like this. What it does is, it brings more blood to the area and it helps the circulation and when there’s circulation there’s oxygen and when there’s oxygen there’s no pain.
Thank you very much for watching these are the few things I’ll do to loosen up the hamstring area and sometimes I call it “the pain in the butt area” . If you have any comment please leave it in the comment box below and don’t forget to visit my blog at http://StressedOutStressFree.com once again my name is Vincent Woon and I see you in the next video.
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BE WELL! 🙂
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