High Hamstring Injury Exercises | High Hamstring Pain

Learn high hamstring injury exercises to rehab from high hamstring tendinopathy, high hamstring strain, or other high hamstring injuries. There's a video on the end screen, you can also check it out on our channel, that covers exercises for high hamstring pain that are more complex and functional, they're called isotonic hamstring exercises with hip flexion.

For more information on high hamstring injuries and a breakdown of these isometric exercises for a high hamstring injury, see my blog here:

A high hamstring injury, most commonly high hamstring tendinopathy or high hamstring strain, can often be resolved with a rehab exercise program. I’ll show you how to perform isometric exercises for high hamstring injury in this blog. Know that high hamstring injuries are common, and you can overcome them successfully with hamstring injury rehab exercises.

There are a lot of rehab exercises for a high hamstring injury, but isometrics are the best ones to start with. Isometric hamstring exercises apply load and tension to the hamstring muscles without a lot of shortening/contraction of the muscle or joint movement.

When you have a high hamstring injury you want to start with isometric exercises because they allow you to engage the muscle but control how much tension you’re putting on it so you don’t’ continue to aggravate the hamstring muscle that’s in an active healing process.

Generally, I’ll move my patients through the following phases, with speed depending on how painful their injury is and how much it’s limiting their function:

Isometric hamstring loading exercises
Isotonic hamstring loading exercises with minimal hip flexion
Isotonic hamstring loading exercises with increased hip flexion
Energy storage and impact loading exercises

I can’t stress enough how important it is to approach your high hamstring injury exercise rehabilitation with a strategy. Start with the isometric hamstring exercises I’m going to cover here and then move forward as you begin to improve and see gains in hamstring muscle strength.

[theminimalistninja]

This was super helpful! I'll have to see if I can set up places where I can tie the bands to. Either way, this gave me a few ideas how I could set it up! I just got diagnosed with high hamstring tendinopathy and will be doing these exercises until my app with a specialist! :)

[lauraangez]

Just what I needed!! Thanks so much :)

[joejie]

Super helpful and he is super cute too... Question, I just had Operation because of complete muscle tear of the hamstring. It's been 9 weeks. Can I do these exercises too?

[king-qiks]

How long do you think it’s gonna take for me to recover. I’ve had for a week now. While I was sprinting it was hurting. I stopped doing anything for a week but it still hurts😢

[justineroach]

Great start but the person chewing while recording made this unbearable to continue to watch.