We all know that familiar sight, seeing our favourite athlete, football or rugby player going down to the ground theatrically all while holding the back of their leg. We even see the same frustration when we see someone not recover from it as well and continually break down with hamstring injury after injury over and over again. Maybe that’s you? Maybe your scared of going into a full sprint in case you’ll feel that familiar pull. Maybe you’ve lost speed when running or you feel you can’t change direction as easily after injuring your hamstring.
Well today I’m going to show you a trick I’ve learned with all hamstring injury patients I’ve treated successfully within my clinic. Its a fun but challenging exercise called Nordic hamstring curls and they are great when it comes to strengthening your hamstrings and preparing them for training and getting back to full fitness.
In a recent article in the football medicine and sports association (https://www.fmpa.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Nordic-hamstring-exercises.pdf). They have provided evidence based guidelines on how to implement the Nordic hamstring curl into rehabilitation to help prevent hamstring injuries in professional sports.
They came up with 48 weekly repetitions of the Nordic hamstring curl to be done after training (for us non athletes this is a just done after exercise).
This is just one aspect in treating muscle injuries so it is best to speak with a health professional such as ourselves at All Out Physiotherapy in order to get you back up to fitness and achieving your goals. Remember seeing someone is taking control of your health.
