5 Simple Steps to HEAL Hamstring Strain FAST!! 

I find it funny how I was here just randomly a couple months ago and now I'm back here because I actually need it.

Who is here after you got injured during soccer

Timestamps -- 3:13 - Rest/protect the injury, use cold pack and ibuprofen, don't stretch it. 4:49 - Perform gentle range of motion routine, 3 times per day. 5:57 - Perform light crossway massage on injured part, few minutes at a time, stop if it starts hurting, consider foam rolling lightly 9:22 - Light walking and isometrics with exercise ball, 3 sets of 10, go easy and increase intensity incrementally every other day 12:04 - Very light weight exercises like assisted, single leg box standups

My watch history 5 steps to doing the splits fast! 5 steps to healing a strained hamstring

I’m literally sobbing like a baby right now because I live to be active it’s like a drug to me now that I can’t even move my leg I’m willing to do anything to help it heal hope this works and doesn’t damage it further...

I had never hurt my hamstring before either and now in my 40s, it happened. So painful🙏stay safe y'all!

Never ever hurt my hamstring in my life & now finally at 30 doing a routine stretch & after warming up I felt a pull. I hope I can get it back to 100% 🙏🏽

I was doing HIIT on the treadmill when I pulled my hammy as well! I was on my last set of 10 second max intensity at 12.5 mph and then I felt it pull. 9 days later I am still in pain. Hence my visit to Bob and Brad. Thank you Gentlemen!

Wholesome dudes. I came for physio rehab advice - I stayed for the chill vibe.

Idk if I pulled or strained my hamstring. I'm thinking I strained it because when I was deadlifting i felt a popping sensation in my left hamstring. It's not the worst pain, I can still walk with a slight limp, and I can still bend my knee with no pain, but there is some discomfort when I straighten my leg out or if I try to bend over and pick up something. Gonna use these tips and hope for the best

If I ever have a problem and I need advice on a particular injury or how to have better posture , you guys are the ones I go to.

Lying on my back, glute and hamstring shooting pain. Day 3 1/2. Thank you for this video and the hope for healing.

That little musical intro/ jingle just made my day hahahahaha! "Bob and Brad the two most famous physical therapist on the Internet." lol I don't have a foam roller or a massage dolphin so I used a tennis ball.

I love you Bob and Brad every time I'm injured which is A LOT, I always end up on landing on you because I forget I subscribed 🤪! You guys are awesome!

Who else is here cos they overdid it with their splits practice 🙋

It's my first time watching this channel. i like these guys, they're like Statler and Waldorf but with rehab tips

5:15 play with the ball for range (day 2,3,4) (few minutes three times daily) 6:48 massage with your hand (if it gets worse you're not ready) (two to three minutes) 8:37 roll on the foam roller (cross the legs if it isn't deep enough while rolling both) (three to five minutes) 9:53 play with the ball for strength (10 repetitions) (three sets of 10 after getting stronger) 12:25 go up and down up and down up and down

This is me right now. My old ass did the split on a dare at a cruise and now I'm in pain. Writing this while laying in bed. Alcohol and splits don't mix. Now I have to call out sick for my job, because I do a lot of sitting.😢

Just tore mine after a 3 hr. bike ride, thank God it’s only a Grade 1 but it’s still very uncomfortable. If I move the wrong way I get a painful spasm. This happened 4 days ago I hope in a week to another week and a half it’ll be fully healed. I’m elevating my leg all the time when I lay down. I drink tons of Milk and I’m icing it every 20 min on the hour. I hope I can get back to biking soon, I will just have to go really slow and easy. Thanks for your vid’s guys! They help a lot!

This worked, almost instantly. Thank you guys.

2 hamstring injuries. 1st was exactly how the Dr described running to 1st playing weekend softball at age 33. 9 years later I injured the same leg doing lunges with dumbells. Thanks for the rehab treatment info guys.

FELL OVER MY CAT IN YARD HURT HAMSTRING LEFT LEG THESE EXCERCISES REALLY DO HELP THANK YOU BOB AND BRAD♥️

Such a great point about not just stretching it like crazy and not stretching it at all initially

once again the blend of knowledge, comedy and approachability has made injury recovery easier. thanks bob and brad!! damn muscles not keeping up with my misplaced self confidence in running fast...

I was doing the same thing on the treadmill when i injured myself. This is super helpful thank you guys.

Thank you guys!!!

Your timing, as always, is perfect. Tweaked my hamstring two weeks ago. Going to use this to strengthen and hopefully prevent another. Thank you!

Thank you B & B your video was very helpful to me.

Thank you I pulled my hammy 3 times in the last two weeks I clearly was doing everything wrong in recovery. I was stretching then it felt good then I started running again and pulled it. Clearly, I need to do everything in this video.

Scored the game winner in our Co-Ed Soccer League championship 💀 as I saw the ball go in.. my hamstring pulled. It was all worth it!! Champions 🏆

You guys are legit! Thanks for providing this info, just blew a hammy

Your always full of knowledge

Hello, My name is Faith Martin, and I am eighteen years old living in Southern California. I have been dealing with chronic body pain for almost a year now. I fell on a treadmill last early August and dislocated my pelvis/hip alignment and all of that. I thought I broke my hand at the same time however, so I continued to work out weightlifting like I had been doing before I fell on treadmill. Pain began to show up in lower left glue ham tie in/ischial tuberosity area, which I now know after seeing MANY doctors and a good PT that it is most likely hamstring tendonitis. The left leg butt/glute still flares up a little time and again but not horrible. I can usually deal with it with ice. As with any tendonitis, good PT and progressively challenging the muscle is essential. I have been doing that for about 3 months to address the left ischial tuberosity tendonitis and it has improved A LOT. Continuing issues however that I have been unable to resolve, and my current PT cannot seem to resolve, is chronic pain/muscle tightness/spasm in the right leg, which is quite odd considering I never directly injured that leg. Theories include incorrect gait walking due to pelvic/hip misalignment, hip flexor tightness, TFL tightness, IT band, the list goes on and on. I have tried every single type of therapy under the sun. Chiropractor, PT, acupuncture, electroshock therapy, massage therapy, percussion, etc. and my right leg continues to be tight like it is sore and I have worked my right quad to death. I also have chronic flare ups of neck pain/tightness, which is so bad some days that I have to stay in bed. No idea what causes it and it is nearly unbearable. Muscle relaxer pills/advil don’t help long term in the way that I need them too. I still feel pain even when I take them. I realize this is a lot of info and quite overwhelming but I just wanted to catch you up on my story and have you be able to get an idea about whether you can help me or not. Thank you for taking the time to read all this. Please respond, anything is appreciated. Do you think this could be a nerve tension problem (in terms of right leg)? Also, Within the past 5 weeks it has seemed to calm down and go away ish but I just went to the gym and tried to do old exercises but with like such low weight. how can I tell if my hamstring is just sore from a workout or if it is a tendonitis flare up? Thank you. I am all out of money to pay other PTs and all the other doctors… I am desperate. Blessings, Faith Martin Jeremiah 29:11

Thanks again guys for this helpful tip🔥🔥🔥🦅. My hamstring feeling a little better now after accidentally slipping on my living room floor, and stretching my left hamstring.

Yeah this is the second time I’ve pulled the same hamstring. Felt a little pop when I was kicking during our fight song routine, this is your sign to always stretch properly before cheering or dancing

Docs are great

Perfect, I've had chronic hamstring pain for about 20 months now. While I had some progress with a pt for about 8 months, it seems to have halted.

well i had a run on treadmill after a good run on treadmill , soo relating example you took hats off !

oh i got injured yesterday with a hamstring and also twisted my ankle too its jst painful

Thank you guys so much

mine been tight since i started back running/playing football a week ago and yesterday i was playing with some youngins tryna shake and bake and it got real tight. most sore it ever been

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Ja assisti esse video umas 5 ou 6 vezes em anos diferentes. Toda vez que machuco meu hamstring volto pra cá 🙋‍♂️👏👏

Fantastic. Thank you very much.

Great video. Everything goes along with all the techniques that I have done. I guess I am on the right path, but it is always good to find people with experience that can validate that what I am doing is right. I will recommend your RU-vid site to a couple of friends that may benefit from it.

Thank you for the content

I like to say I’m very very flexible and one time I dropped into splits without stretching before hand. So I pulled my hamstring. It was on my good leg too. I want to get better.

You're the best guys! I was doing the exercises as you do it and my legs are already feeling good! almost healed I hope

Hello injured people

Is regular stretching a good way to help prevent hamstring strains? After a hamstring pull, when do you know it’s ok to go back to stretching?

Damn, doing quite serious sports since over 13 years (oly lifting, crossfit, etc) and NEVER had a hamstring injury. Now a bike accident changed that... But thank God, I found some good tips here at Bob & Brad.

Very good tips for upper hamstring injury/strain. Thank you both for this informative & entertaining video segment.

I injured my hamstring training freestyle wrestling, thank you for this!

Thank just hurt my hamstrings doing high speed workout thanks for the info.

Thank you for posting these videos Bob and Brad. I've been watching your channel for years now and it's helped me alot in my work. I'm a circus performer so this information is more valuable than gold. Thanks again :)

Thanks I will be using these techniques

My hamstring popped on the basketball court and I face planted . Due to never feeling a pop before I felt like I tore it but after 3 days , it's still painful but I'm walking better and the bruising is down so I believeits a strain . So hopefully this helps so I can get back into my routine 💪🏼👏🏼

Can you guys do a hamstring recovery video for those who went through ACL reconstruction with a hamstring graft...? Just went through the surgery and would really appreciate it!

I tore my hamstring in Taekwondo a couple years ago and it healed and it’s been good ever since because I constantly stretch before kicking but the one day I didn’t stretch (today) it tore again and man it hurt! Thanks for the video and information it’s gonna be very helpful!

An excellent video, came at a perfect time!

I did the same thing! Only, I was sprinting outside. I was done, walking inside the building to get my bag and go home but I decided one more sprint..... I felt my left hamstring start spraining so I stopped real fast(not good). This totals 5 hamstring injuries. 3 on right leg, 2 on left. I’m a soccer player so it’s common. I’m currently in recover. Will try these exercises! Thanks for the vid

this is so helpful n chillest vibes, thank you:)

Here because I did prone leg curls and then hit deadlift right after. Worst soreness I’ve ever had, feels good and bad at the same time.

Amen to the quote! Needed to read that one! Thanks guys.

This helped me so much!! Especially the ball exercises. Thanks for the great info.

I injured my hamstring EXACTLY the same way!! Gonna try this THX

It’s funny how I randomly found this, after last night playing softball, this morning woke up with a hamstring strain. Right on!!!!!

When you said softball and the high low blocks on the treadmill. Two things I did on the same day I strained my hamstring! 😂

I still can’t stretch without re injuring myself and it’s been eight years. I stopped track for the season and never did therapy for the injury. I just stopped working out and never got back into it because the injury would come back every time.

definitely think I pulled my hamstring, or tore it idk without xray or mri. but this video was very helpful along with my understanding of the body and anatomy.

I’ve always been an active sports player and this hamstring injury really upsets me because it prevents me from doing what love:/

Thanks guys helped like a charm!

I had a bad experience with a deep tissue massage where the massage therapist tried to break up a big knot in my upper hamstring. I think he may have strained it due to the sharp, stingy pain I feel. I didn’t notice the pain much until I went to the gym and did some elliptical the next day and did some stretching. Now, the next day, I notice the pain regularly. I can walk but I have a bit of a limp. However, due to my public transit commute into the city for work, I cannot avoid walking all together. So my question is: how much walking is too much walking in those early days? Thank you!

Never had an issue but finally today felt a pop on RDLs today, had 140kg on the bar usually no issues for me but stopped straight away and now I guess I have to rest up

How do you know your hamstring is healed. I feel no pain. Haven’t ran in 4 days, want to know if I can go again.

If you don’t have a ball you can use a TRX suspension strap, which does the same hamstring exercise.

I’m a cheerleader and I have competitive tryouts today I hurt it 3 days ago, so hopefully this helps.

How long should a hamstring injury take to heal it’s been 2 weeks and I can jog without pain should I up there intensity of training

I was in academy for correctional officer and we had to run I felt that sharp pain boom I was limping for about two day but I’m stretching more and it’s helping the soreness go away so it’s healing

Thanks for the amazing video, I'm in pain from many years, the doctors told me to stretch. I now see that I don't. Thank you again. Should I avoid also exercisese like Bulgarian Split Squat? Maybe without weights? Thanks again ❤

Can you please tell me why I’m getting constant small muscle spasms on/ in hamstring?

after my volleyball practise i injured both of my hamstrings constantly getting cramps, its swollen and walking around the campus is hell i hope it heals fast

My hamstring needs to be healed I’m over stretching omg-

Theme song funny but catchy #RESPECT 😂😂😂

I woke up to sleep to (subconciously) stretch my leg when i pulled my hamstring :( and that really sucked cus everyone was asleep but luckily i called my mom on my phone and she woke up. The same thing keeps happening and most recently my upper thigh got pulled to, I haven't been able to cure (?) it yet and it's annoying.

Pulled my hamstring doing 2 days of yard work. So glad I found this page.

Had knee replacement about 3 or 4 month of rehab they release me,told me to continue on my own ,that I cannot hurt it at all but I proved them wrong because my back of my thigh or my knee is killing me l'm in a lot of pain .I put my hands on the bed doing squats . Forcing myself to get the bend in my knee because she said I need to do it .if not I would have problems and that's when my problems really begin to hurt me the most. Been about 6 months ,still hurt a lot. Any thought how i can get any better.

This man really said weekend softball after running to 1st base...literally how i got my hamstring strain

i'm here bc i tried doing the splits and i pulled my hamstring 😅

Thanks for the tips. Injured my hamstring two days ago working at Amazon. I heard a pop and screamed some profanities. Hoping to heal it quickly.

I felt a sharp pain in the back of my knee as I plopped down, followed by radiating leg pain. now I have pain on lateral /outside hamstring. Today I did light (20kg) Romanian deadlifts and a few bodyweight squats still felt pain slight pain in the side of hams and when I tried squat and stand I sense a pulling sensation (like a string on a cello)behind the knee. Could his be hamstring ,patella or acl related?

As a 18 yr old I somehow managed to play 4 years of varsity football and never had any injuries. I play one game of a summer softball league and pull my hamstring.😂

U guys are like the PT dads I never had 😂 awesome video

all this is useless if your diet is lacking. you also need blood flow and lots of sleep. for blood flow, light swimming worked for me and I upped my protein and vegetable intake. kangaroo steak, brusel sprouts, kale/ leafy greens and for carbs, sweet potato. listen to your body, discomfort is normal, pain means rest. also positive thinking. iv healed a bucket handle miniscus tear without surgery, made a full recovery from a spinal fusion and healed severe quadriceps tendonitis by focusing on blood flow and diet. I'm not a professional, just have spent a lot of time, trial and error. also, I noticed moving to a tropical climate speeds up the healing process

I used you guys for nerve floss for neck and all good tingling gone. And guess what pulled my hamstring muscle doing a cartwheel at my old age. Dumb. Thought a guitar string popped off is how it felt You both are lifesavers. It is working I am limping and taking it slow. Took bending over for granted eeek

Thank you so much been having trouble for years love that you guys have made the video

Lol the intro really made me pause and laugh. I already see why you have 2 mil subscribers.

That soft ball reference felt oddly personal.. and the sole reason why I'm here today 😂

I’ve had a pulled hamstring for weeks now and I’m so annoyed I can’t do anything

Thank you! I feel better already!!