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Hamstring finally healed–what finally worked
I just wanted to post this in case it can help somebody else with a hamstring injury that just won’t heal. I injured my hamstring way up in my butt cheek where the muscle attaches working on splits in a yoga class. It took 14 months to heal–I actually had kind of given up on it ever healing. When it happened I assumed it was a pulled muscle and gave it six weeks of relative rest with no improvement. Then saw my doc who ordered physical therapy which included strengthening as well as some myofascial release and electrical stim. No change, back to doc, MRI done showing no tear. Doc sent me to his partner who did some more myofascial release and acupuncture and he attaches electrical stim to the acupuncture needles. No change. This second doc then did two injections of prolotherapy, which is injecting dextrose into the area to irritate it so it will heal itself. Three weeks after the second injection it started to get a little bit better, which it hadn’t done for a year. Around then I also started getting Muscle Activation Technique (MAT) therapy (https://muscleactivation.com) as recommended by the second doc as well. I just noticed about two weeks ago that it’s finally gone. I believe prolotherapy was probably the biggest reason and the MAT probably helped too. I’m continuing the MAT for a few other aches and pains that won’t heal and they think they’ll be able to help my back flexibility (or lack thereof) as well.
I know from some previous posts that there are many of us with hamstring injuries so hopefully this will help someone.
And this is the only community who will understand how happy I am to be able to genuinely work on flexibility again!
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Thanks very much for the info and I’m happy to hear that you found something that works! It’s also great that you didn’t give up until you came across a solution.
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