Yoga Therapy to Protect Against Hamstring Injury

Everyone may have experienced tightness or injury in the hamstring. Sports activities would most likely cause this, resulting in back pain, sciatica, cramp and many more symptoms. Lack of awareness and not engaging muscles properly can also lead to hamstring injury.

Hamstring Injury

Common hamstring injuries include pulled hamstring or hamstring strain, tight hamstring and hamstring origin tendinitis.

A tear in one or more hamstring muscle group causes pulled hamstrings or strained hamstrings. Tight hamstrings could result from heavy weight work out or running or postural disorder. It can be caused by back problems such as lower back pain, popliteus (on the back of the knee joint) injury or sacroiliac joint problems etc. Hamstring tendinitis is inflammation of the hamstring

Everyone may have experienced tightness or injury in the hamstring. Sports activities would most likely cause this, resulting in back pain, sciatica, cramp and many more symptoms. Lack of awareness and not engaging muscles properly can also lead to hamstring injury. tendon, which is attached to the sit bones, due to tear of the hamstring or overuse.

Yoga Therapy

Proper rest in the initial stage of injury is important. You can continue a gentle practice to recover the strength and heel the injury. The more committed you are with your practice, the faster the hamstring heels.

Hamstring is like a rubber band. A rubber band is flexible for a reason, it can withstand a lot of force pushing against it. However, if stretched too mfar, it causes it to break. Yoga provides you with patience and a presence of mind to prevent and protect any injuries.