Health blog Category: Hamstrings
Hamstring Strains: Understanding, Treating, and Preventing
Our Hamstrings are responsible for helping us stand, walk, run, and jump. When an injury occurs with our hamstrings, such as hamstring strains, it is imperative to seek treatment right away, to avoid it from affecting your everyday life. One of the most common hamstring injuries we see in the clinic is a hamstring strain.
Where Are Our Hamstrings Located?
The hamstrings are three muscles that make up the back of your thigh.
Read full blogUnderstanding and Overcoming Hamstring Injuries: A Guide to Healing
The hamstrings are vital muscles in our lower body, contributing to everyday movements like walking, running, and jumping. Despite their importance, these muscles are often overlooked, leading to injuries such as strains. Let’s delve into the role of hamstrings, common injuries like hamstring strains, and how physical therapy can aid in recovery.
The Hamstrings: An Overview
Comprising three muscles – the semitendinosus, semimembranosus, and biceps femoris – the hamstrings span from the pelvis to just below the knee joint.
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Before we even begin talking about common hamstring injuries, let’s talk about some anatomy and get an understanding of what the hamstring even is and what it helps us do!
Your hamstring is the group of muscles in the back of the leg. The hamstring is made up of 3 muscles including the:
- semitendinosus
- semimembranosus
- biceps femoris
These muscles help flex the knee and extend the hip.
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We’ve all been there, we spend a long time sitting and when we go to stand up and walk we feel a pull in the back of our thigh and feel like we can’t stand completely upright. Those tight muscles we feel stiffening up are our hamstrings. These are the muscles that we commonly feel to be tight or restricting with our motion in our legs or sometimes our lower backs. The hamstrings are a large muscle group made up of 3 muscles:
- semitendinosus
- semimembranosus
- biceps femoris
These muscles attach from the bottom of our pelvis to just below our knee.
Read full blogHamstring Injuries can be a Pull or a Tear
What is your hamstring?
The hamstrings are made up of three muscles: semitendinosus, semimembranosus and biceps femoris. These three muscles are located in the back of the upper leg. The hamstrings allow for bending at the knee and extending the hip. One or more of the muscles may be injured with a hamstring injury and it may be a “pull”, a partial tear or a full tear.
Most commonly a hamstring injury will occur with running, jumping or sudden start/stopping motions.
Recovering from a Hamstring Strain
The hamstrings are often neglected by many. Hamstring injuries are commonly seen in the PT clinic. The most common injury that we see in the hamstrings is hamstring strains. The hamstrings are a large group of muscles that sits on the back of your thigh. They help extend your hip and bend your knee. They are made up of 3 muscles:
- The semitendinosus
- The semimembranosus
- Biceps femoris
A strain happens when there is a tear in the muscle.
Read full blogStrains in These Muscles, Means Trouble Bending Our Knees
The hamstrings play an important role in the lower body. They are responsible for helping us stand, walk, run, and jump. Hamstrings are often neglected and can result in an injury to them, such as strains. One of the most common hamstring injuries that we see in the clinic is the hamstring strain.
What are the Hamstrings?
The hamstrings are made up of three muscles that make up the back of your thigh.
Read full blogHamstrings are to Blame for Painful Walking
Having trouble walking, squatting, or experiencing pain around our knee area, is an indicator of a hamstring injury.
Where are Our Hamstrings?
Our hamstring muscle group is located on the back side of our thigh and is made up of three muscles. These three muscles originate on the hip bone and attach at the knee joint. When these muscles contract, your knee bends into a flexed position, when they relax, your knee is able to straighten back out.
Read full blogEffective Treatment for Hamstring Injuries
Hamstring injuries are common amongst athletes, especially with movements involving high-speed running, high kicks, slide tackling, and splits.
What are Hamstrings and How are They Injured?
The hamstring is a combination of 3 muscles:
- Semitendinosus
- Semimembranosus
- Biceps femoris
Injury is dependent on intensity of sport along with other variables such as duration, frequency and/or body compensations for other lower extremity injuries (such as injury to meniscus).
Read full blogHow Tight Hamstrings Can Lead To Back Pain
When we think of muscle tightness, several pictures can come to mind.
- We may think about how we’re unable to reach down and touch our toes without bending our knees (or at all)
- Some may think about how they have a hard time squatting down to tie their shoes without lifting their heels up
- The list goes on.
Muscle tightness doesn’t just hinder good form in our daily activities, but it can also lead to pain and injuries in different parts of the body.
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