Running Tips for High Hamstring Tendinopathy

In this video, Maryke discusses what changes you can make to your running style to help your recovery from high hamstring tendinopathy.

Chapters:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:49 Why over-striding is a problem for high hamstring tendinopathy
00:02:20 How to correct over-striding
00:04:09 How we can help

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[Pikminization]

This video deserves so much more views and likes. Thank you! I knew that overstriding was bad but this explains the main reason why is bad. It goes beyond making you faster, but also healthier stride

[wildfood]

I switched to toe strike vs heel strike and my pain stopped increasing due to running. Pain is still there but no longer aggravated due to running.

[adgreen]

Thanks for this very helpful clip. I’ve had this condition now for 7 months with no sign of improving. I really need to work hard on changing my running style now!

[kasimhussain]

I've got a hamstring pain from just above the back of the knee to just below my butt especially when try straightening my leg makes football so hard 🤧 🤧🤧🤧 what's the best thing to do and should i continue to play whilst i can feel it slightly tight when i run??

[shawnconrad]

Do you think a cortisone injection would help with this. I’m 51 and I’ve been battling this for over a year. It’s not excruciatingly painful, but the nagging issue with it continues to come and go. I won’t feel it for a while. Maybe like a week or two, then it rears its ugly head. I am going to start ultrasounding it every other day or so and see how that goes. It started oct of ‘23 from soccer and I continued to play through it until we took a break in May. Then mountain bike season and it completely prohibited me from riding last year. Any information you can give me would be greatly appreciated

[Diegogonzalez]

Would a cybex arc trainer machine be a good substitute for running/treadmill? The form from an arc trainer does seem to eliminate heel striking.

[laurentaylor]

Wow. Your channel is amazing. Thank you so much. I am a dancer and yoga teacher. I have a great many habits that have contributed to this condition I now realise, and then on top of that massive over stretching on a regular basis. This has always been very normal for me but i think over lockdown i lost some of my usual flexibility and also i just turned 40. So recently i started stretching normally but it was probably way too intense for my actual fitness at the time. I think this problem started about a year or 2 ago when i definitely injured it during martial arts training (taking most of my body weight on that tendon and then deep flexion in the hip all the way down to the ground) never saw anyone about it. just assumed i'd pulled something and it would get better but its never been the same. recent stretching then made it flair up and now it is painful every day. Particularly first thing in the morning. Now that it has reached this point, do you think i will ever be able to safely stretch again? Yoga and dance is my life :-(

[abelimages]

Thanks for info. I have HHT and it’s at level 2. Is that pain level fine to continue running? After run a little irritation but the next morning no pain. I run as you suggest under my body short soft steps. No hills or sprinting. Slow and about 4 miles. Thanks again.

[adamsandler]

Hi, A little over 2 weeks ago I fell on my left glute while biking with my pedals clipped in. As I was falling I vaguely remember twisting my left foot as I was falling and possibly felt a pooping sensation in the glute/upper hamstring area. I didn’t think much of the feeling after getting back up I continued biking without trouble. I took the next day off and ran on Sunday. I was feeling glute pain on that run, and assumed it was residual soreness and bruising from the fall. However, once the bruising and soreness went away a pain still remained. The pain is not enough to alter my running form but it’s definitely there. I feel the pain when going at a regular pace while running, and more while doing striders. I also feel the pain in the glute/hamstring of the planted foot when doing back lunge and runners touch. I also feel the pain when sitting and I lean my body to the left, and roll over what I think is my left sit-bone. From doing my online research it seems like it could be sciatica, a proximal hamstring strain, or piriformis syndrome. When I do the four (I don’t remember the full name of the stretch) I feel it more on my left than right. Do you know what it is from that description? Is there any test to tell which one of those injuries it is? What do you think the expected recovery time from this is? Can I run through it? Can I bike through it, because I don’t have pain biking?

[gluvsjava]

Pose running technique seems like a good option.

[yannismarigo]

Exactly what I experienced. But transitioning to true midfoot/forefoot strike is a tricky one. I feel my plantar fascia hurting again ! Despite a lot of calves strength exercises. I already survived some plantar fasciatis and landing forefoot is just waking that up. Vicious circle. Close to abandon running…

[Chris-dwxl]

I’m struggling with it now for me it’s more of a irritating than pain on the pain scale it’s about 3/4 ish I’m just trying to manage it lol today was my longest run of 8 miles which was ok but I find it’s my belly of hamstring starts ache more than my high hamstring