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pulled hamstring
Who can commisserate with me? It's not 'bad'–could be worse–but I wonder how long it will take to heal? Ugh, I'm frustrated that I pulled it. 🙁
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I think I did by doing a drop split. I'm so bummed…right when I was getting somewhere with it, too!https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_sad.gif
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I pulled mine about two weeks ago. It was extremely minor though, I took a week of complete rest, another week of working out, but no stretching, and hoping to get back to stretching in a few days. It’s very frustrating, especially since it was my more flexible hamstring 🙁 hoping I didnt regress too much, once I get back to splits training. Hope yours heals soon!
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I pulled (ripped?) mine trying to do the splits. I got into them and then heard a loud pop! It took about 6 months or so to completely heal. I hardly did any stretching initially, and when I started I had lost a lot of flexibility, but I kept at it and now it’s even better than before. My ex-dancer husband said ripped hammie’s are “part of being a dancer” Lol, but I don’t think that’s good thinking either. Just know it will heal but it will take a while.
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Yes, I was in splits and heard a loud pop too….thanks for your experiences, guys. It’s so hard to try to rest it. Crap!!
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I pulled BOTH of mine… I I had the same thing happen, except I was doin a heel stretch both times. Heard something horrible…
I've read hamstrings are hard to heal because of lack of blood flow to the area or something? I pulled one about 3-4 months ago and I have my range of motion back but it still aches from time to time… pulled the other a couple weeks ago and I still can't straighten that leg completely without pain. I've heard of these injuries taking forever to heal though, I need to get into a doctor or massage therapist… it sucks, one my right it's a literal pain in my ass and on the left it hurts to fully extend the leg or do a straddle.
I do still stretch but I try to take it easy on the hamstrings and not do anything intense with them…
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Same thing happened to me. In January I dropped into my split (which ive had, both sides, for years) and I heard/felt a pop. It’s been 6mo and only recently am I finally back into my split, though it’s tender and requires a lot of foam rolling. What is embarrassing is I did it to my left side in May (not nearly as bad though). I can relate to the frustration and the pain. Foam rolling and icing (after giving it some time to heal seems to help the best). As someone else said, on my right side it was an actual pain in my butt that persisted for months, making it nearly impossible to sit for any extended period of time.
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Wow, this is fairly common then unfortunately…how can this be avoided? Sucks that one second in a split can cause months of rehab. I'm going to look into some massage too I think…as well as the foam rolling.
GL Kyrelle, sorry you've pulled both. Oh, and you too, PM. :/
I'm going to be totally afraid of splits now. Everything but my hamstrings seem to be nice and loose, and now with an injury…UGH. I'm ready to give up on splits.
pity party for all of us! https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_confused.gif
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For what it’s worth… I get a massage weekly and my therapist is a sports therapist and it’s not speeding up the process. Or maybe I’m just impatient! Lol Damn my pole addiction!
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For me it's been about 8+ months…still not all healed yet:(
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I pulled my Gracilis muscle this week, doing box splits stretching and it went ‘pop’ I was gutted. Can’t do my pole exam tomorrow now 🙁 luckily it’s not bad so I can do everything apart from stretching and laybacks. Still pretty annoying though because now I’m scared of doing it again but worse :-/
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Hammies take a long time to heal is right.
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I used to pull my hamstring a lot from figure skating (I rather enjoy doing splits on the ice haha it looks cool). It takes quite a while to heal, unfortunately. I would think the best way to avoid them, like all stretches, is to be properly warmed up!!
I wish you a speedy recovery! I understand how hard/frustrating it can be to have to rest, but do take it easy until the muscle heals up. And don't give up on the splits! 🙂
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I pulled my left hamstring about 8 years ago doing a Bikram yoga posture. It gave me heck for 3-4 months before it started to calm down. Even 7 years later when I wasn't warm enough or pushing too hard I would get a very specific pain on that part of my body that indicated I needed to back off.
I know we are all unique an our bodies respond and heal differentlly but I can drop into splits now with no problem and am training oversplits. I have no ongoing issue with that area. That is not something I want to revisit (ever) so I am make sure I am very warm before doing flexy stuff and I also wear really long legwarms to keep heat in the body during flexibility sessions.
I'm sorry that you have an injury and hammie pulls suck… no doubt about it. Take care and hoping in time you get to and then exceed where you were before the injury.
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Argh, I recently (a month ago) had a minor hamstring tear!
After being concerned that it was still giving me grief after four weeks I went to a physio, who told me the initial heal time for a minor tear like mine was 6 – 8 weeks, sometime 10 weeks.
I think if you're still concerned you should go see a physio! My physio gave me heaps of stretches and exercises to make sure it healed properly and wouldn't give me trouble down the line.
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2 years ago I pulled my left hamstring (flexible side) dropping into the splits. I didn't really feel it at the time but the next morning I could barely walk. After a while I went to a physio but she didn't do much to fix it besides showing me some exercises to stretch it out. (She did realign my hips though which was cool!) After about 6 months I was finally able to split as much as I had been before but it took about 9 months to not feel it anymore!!
In April I pulled my right hamstring (inflexible side) by lifting my hands off the floor while in the splits, obvioulsy before I was ready. Straight away I called my neuromuscular therapist and he told me to ice it, 6 mins on and 20 mins off and then bandage it up. I went to him for treatment and he reeeeeeeeally sped up the healing process. I was unable to rest as I was a week away from my first competition and I'm also an instructor so he taped my hamstring with some KT tape. It's an awesome tape that protects injuries but it's flexible so you can still move. He also gave me stretching and strenghtening exercised and LOADS of awesome advice to avoid it happening again! I am now almost totally better! So my advice is to seek treatment if you can. https://www.studioveena.com/img/smilies/icon_e_smile.gif
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