Hamstring pain and tightness - but not while running! (Read 2085 times)

Right or left hamstring? Automatic or standard transmission?

I don't know then, my guess is that depressing the gas pedal is aggravating it somehow. I guess I would treat driving like I normally treat running with an injury -- stretching and ice.

You know, I've tried taking my wallet out of my back pocket but it still doesn't seem to help. I guess I just need to keep stretching and strengthening the leg and hope that it helps. It's kinda funny, I usually complain that I can't run because of an injury. Now I'm complaining that I can't sit still in a car for 45 minutes on my drive to work!

That's the crazy thing about this issue. I can run fine, actually have started to add some speedwork. My hamstring is OK to run on. It doesn't bother me any other time during the day, just when I drive in a car for more than about 35 - 40 minutes. Maybe I can talk my boss into letting be work from home. Save my hamstring, save gas and help the environment at the same time. I don't think she'll buy it!

My chiropractor does a treatment on me called graston treatment when something hurts. He effectively is scraping off the lesion and letting the muscle and fascia work normal. I bet one treatment and your hamstring would be fine. I have had this done once on my hamstring and it was fixed with one scrape. Lots of chiropractors offer this service. After my insurance pays, I only pay $6. If you have to pay $60 it's well worth it.

I will throw this out there....I had a nagging hamstring thing for about 10 months. It never hurt when I ran but if I drove in a car or sat down too long at work it tightened up and started to hurt. I could never get rid of this thing no matter how much I stretched. It turned out I had a big knot in the muscle. I let my wife knead the hell out of it one night and it hurt really bad. But it completely fixed the problem.

Bugs34, You mention "scraping off the lesion"; how does this work and is it as painful as it sounds? I think of scraping as something that would be done through surgery. Is that the case here? I've never gone to a chiropractor for an issue like this. Would certainly be something worth looking into if you say that it works. Thanks so much for the input.

The procedure is minor, non-invasive. They use stainless steel tools that are suppose to be shaped to get around the muscles better. A lubricant is used so the tools glide over the muscles. He will glide the tool over the injury. My guy can feel with his hand and know right where a problem is. I've had several cases where I would say it hurts in my "achilles" and without me even telling him "ya it hurts there" he finds the problem. It takes only minutes for him to glide the tool over the injury, effectively it's a deep massage and typically doesn't cost any more than a massage would have. The procedure also works if it's just a knot. Often when I read on the forums of people's injuries where they rest, resumed running and it still hurts I think graston would fix. It gets rid of the scar tissue that is limiting the muscle from functioning normally. I've done it on myself using some massage oil and the back of the butter knife. If you do this, one tip is if you see red dots stop. You may bruise some, that is normal. People think the "stick" is great, your butter knife is a much better choice. I'd recommend you call around and ask if they perform this therapy.