Hamstring Injury - Cause
What was the cause of your hamstring injury?
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What causes hamstring injuries, and what are types of hamstring injuries?
Hamstring injuries are muscle strain injuries. Hamstring injuries typically are caused by rapid acceleration activities when running or initiating running activity. Hamstring injuries are common in sports such as soccer, football, and track. Injuries to the hamstring group of muscles can range from a minor strain to a major rupture. A minor strain is classified as a grade I tear, whereas a complete rupture, or tear, is classified as a grade III tear. Grade II tears are partial ruptures. Given the function of these muscles, it should not be surprising that grade III injuries most frequently occur in the athletically active. Severely torn muscle causes impaired function. Grade I injuries tend to be mild in that they tend to heal fully with only minor aggravation to the injured, especially in the sedentary individual. On the other hand, in power athletes, hamstring injuries can be severe and debilitating. Many a promising or successful athletic career has been limited or ended by such injuries. One such memorable image is that of Yankee baseball star Mickey Mantle sprawled in agony at first base, having sustained a massive grade III tear while lunging to beat out a throw. Even common exercises, such as jumping rope, tennis, and elliptical machine walking can lead to injury of the hamstring muscles.
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About 5 days ago, I was playing soccer at school, when suddenly I felt a very slight amount of pain in my right hamstring, since it wasn't severe I decided to continue playing the game, I had the ball at my feet and went for a sprint and during that sprint the muscle suddenly started to hurt, but I stopped immediately before it got any worse. It didn't really hurt badly at the beginning, and it currently doesn't hurt when walking or swimming, but whenever I start to sprint I feel pain on the hamstring. So I was just wondering about the required treatment, and how long would it take.
Walking to the front of a moving bus, my leg zigged when I thought it would zag and I fell, butt first on the sharp corner of a seat arm rest. Was training for a marathon and took a week off. That seemed to do the trick although there was a hint of occasional pain especially running downhill. During the marathon I had a terrible groin pain. It subsided and I soldiered on. I went to the doc the next day who then set me up with an MRI. It came back saying I had a separated tendon on my medial hamstring at the hip (point of impact of my fall earlier). The groin was causing me the most pain but the tendon seemed to be the most serious. Sports medicine did not require surgery to my surprise and relief. The groin was improving but suddenly the pain at the hamstring tendon reappeared 10 months later. Am I stuck with this? Doc said that without surgery it would reattach to a neighboring tendon.
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