Hamstring pain can be sharp or cause tightness in the back of your thigh. Your hamstring is a group of three muscles on the back of your thigh, and when one or more of these muscles get ...

By holding the weight on just one side I still isolate one hamstring at a time, but with the extra bonus of stability through both feet. Most importantly, there’s no back pain. “The main ...

Pain is also felt along the back of the thigh or bottom of the buttock, with the possibility of radiating down behind the ...

Clinically, he presented with a grade 1 hamstring injury that was confirmed on MRI (figure 2) to be more medial, towards the epimysium and not continuous with the scar tissue from the initial injury.

and increased pain when an isometric hamstring contraction was added during that test. Exclusion criteria were extrinsic trauma to the posterior thigh (contusions), ongoing or chronic low back ...

This will ensure your hamstrings are doing all the work while preventing lower back pain. 1. Start by laying flat on your back. Lift one leg up and bend the knee to 90 degrees. 2. Hold the leg ...

or even having a hamstring-focused lower body day, will also even out any imbalances and support your back and hips to reduce pain. “I would always prioritise doing your biggest compound move at ...