The hamstring muscles are a group of musclesthat are along the back of your thigh. They originated from your pelvis and areinserted into your knee. Hamstring helps you to push and propel especially whenit comes to running & jumping.
Hamstring injury is a broad term and itincludes from a hamstring strain to hamstring tendon avulsion.
Hamstring injuries commonly occur due tomuscle overload, overstretched, or over-use, such as when you are suddenlystarted running from rest, sudden lunging, or jumping. During running itcommonly occurs when your leg is fully stretched out just before you hit theground. Hamstring injuries are common in sports like- football, basketball,cricket, hockey, tennis, & badminton, etc.
A hamstring injury causes you sudden &severe pain in the back of the thigh during exercise, along with snapping orpopping sensation when bending over, other symptoms may include bruising,swelling, & weakness in the leg.
Typical health care handles hamstring injuriesby suggesting- Resting the leg, Icing it, compressing it using the knee brace,or elevating the leg, other suggestions may also include taking painmedications, corticosteroid injections, & physiotherapy. In somesituations, when the case is severe enough, they may also suggest surgery.
But Elite Physiotherapy & Sports InjuryCentre is a little bit different, and add on several conservative methods todeal with your injuries. First of all we spend hour with patients and perform adetailed assessment to get an accurate diagnosis and get to the root cause ofyour pain. We will then perform specific hand-on manual therapy followed byexercises, stretches & the latest technology machines. And also design ahome exercise program that you can do at home to maintain the progress that wasmade during treatment.
PHYSIOTHERAPY TREATMENT OF HAMSTRINGINJURY AT OUR PHYSIOTHERAPY CLINIC INCLUDES:
Our quality physiotherapists evaluate yourcondition and accordingly starts treatment that includes- Cryo-therapy or Heat-therapy.
Cryo-therapy would perform if the condition isacute to reduce the inflammation & hemarthrosis and also get pain relief.
Heat-therapy is applied when the injurybecomes chronic to relax the muscles around the injury and pain relief.
Then our physiotherapists started Isometricexercises for the activation of your hamstring muscles. Then gradually progressto active assisted exercise.
Stretching of hip flexors group of muscles toincrease the rate of recovery and hip & nee mobility, and also helps inminimizing the formation of scar tissues.
Eccentric Strengthening exercises- this is anadvanced strengthening exercise that is done against the resistance provided bythe physiotherapist himself or by the resistance band or weights. Some of theexamples are: hip hinges, hamstring curls, Nordic drops, etc.
Along with hamstring muscles their synergistmuscles also should strengthen up such as- gluteal muscles, & adductorMagnus, etc by one-legged bridging, squats, and split squats, etc.
Our Sports physiotherapist will also dospecific manual therapy such as-
Soft tissue mobilization of the lumbar spine,sacroiliac joint, and buttock region.
Osteopathic treatment such as muscle energytechnique, kneading massage, Myofascial releasing, etc.
Neuromuscular control exercises- such as thesingle-leg balance on the Bosu ball, single leg windmill touches, etc.
Kinesio taping for circulation improvement,muscle support and will prevent further muscle injury.
Our physiotherapy clinic is equipped withworld-class latest technology machines such as- Extracorporeal shock wave(ECSW), High-intensity class 4 laser, super inductive system (SIS),Cryo-compression, Cryo-air, Targeted Radiofrequency (TR-therapy), wirelessprofessional, & Combo machine, etc.
At last when patient achieve fitness level fordoing the activity of daily living, then our sports physiotherapists beginssports-specific treatment for sportspersons who wants to return to sports with-
Agility training.
Plyometric training.
Sports-specific drills and training. Etc.