{"id":1902,"date":"2025-11-03T12:24:32","date_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:24:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/?p=1902"},"modified":"2025-11-03T12:24:32","modified_gmt":"2025-11-03T12:24:32","slug":"can-i-run-with-a-sore-hamstring-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/can-i-run-with-a-sore-hamstring-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Can I Run With a Sore Hamstring"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a question I am often asked when dealing with hamstring injuries. My typical answer is, \u201cit depends\u201d.\u00a0 Some of the questions I ask are as follows<\/p>\n

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  1. Was there a particular incident that led to a pain in your hamstring?<\/li>\n
  2. Is it something that gradually came on over time?<\/li>\n
  3. Do you have a history of hamstring injuries?<\/li>\n
  4. Does the pain go down the leg?<\/li>\n
  5. Describe what the pain feels like? Is it a sharp shooting electric like pain?<\/li>\n
  6. Have you any numbness, tingling, pins and needles?<\/li>\n
  7. Are there any associated issues that might relate to it?<\/li>\n
  8. How is your general health?<\/li>\n
  9. How is your bladder and bowel movements?<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    If the answers to Q4-Q7 is\u00a0No<\/strong>, and Q8 and Q9 are\u00a0Good<\/strong>, I am usually happy to let someone run with a bit of hamstring pain.<\/p>\n

    Hamstring pain can come from a number of sources like tendinopathy, muscle strain, muscle tears, referred pain from the lower back or glutes, etc.<\/p>\n

    Research tells us, a comprehensive early rehabilitation plan following a muscle tear, strain or tendinopathy is advocated. Some gentle initial running, were pain allows is part of this process.<\/p>\n

    On a VAS scale of 0-10 with 0 being no pain and 10 being the worst pain you have ever felt. I advocate running if your pain is around a 3-4 and it;<\/p>\n

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    1. doesn\u2019t increase with duration<\/li>\n
    2. comes back to baseline afterward your run<\/li>\n
    3. hasn\u2019t increased in pain the following morning<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

      All too often we are afraid to exercise due to pain. Sometimes it\u2019s ok to exercise with a little pain. It doesn\u2019t mean you are making something worse, just that you are asking an area that is irritated to do some work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

      This is a question I am often asked when dealing with hamstring injuries. My typical answer is, \u201cit depends\u201d.\u00a0 Some of the questions I ask are as follows Was there a particular incident that led to a pain in your hamstring? Is it something that gradually came on over time? Do you have a history […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-physical-therapy"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/liberatingsolution.tech\/design-demo\/leinster-physical-therapy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}