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Hamstring pain and tightness can quickly steal joy from life, and it has the capacity to put high performing athletes on the bench for weeks. It can range from a nagging discomfort that lingers in the background to a repeated sprain or strain that can be the end of one’s career. If you’re experiencing ongoing hamstring pain early on in life, you know that finding answers quickly is your best chance at surviving your current predicament.
Finding relief begins with understanding the true cause of your hamstring pain. Unfortunately, many traditional treatments only offer temporary relief, ignoring the deeper issues at play. Without proper care, that dull ache can quickly spiral into a severe, chronic condition, leaving you feeling trapped in your own body.
One of the most common causes of neck pain is repetitive stress of the neck muscles, tendons, and ligaments within these structures. Individuals who spend most of their day sitting at work, or doing sedentary activities, have a high-risk factor for developing this condition. The risk for developing neck pain is highest for those who sit in poor posture, with the head in a flexed forward position.
Several other causes of neck pain are also posture related, such as herniated discs, whiplash injuries, and Osteoarthritis (developing from the wear and tear of cartilage and bones). Poor posture puts your cervical spine, disks, and muscles in the neck at risk of injury and damage.
Remedies for hamstring pain are often limited to the pain area and therefore provide only short-term relief. Fortunately, there is another proven method that focuses on the root cause of pain, resulting in lasting relief for both acute and chronic hamstring pain.
Ice, heat, and pain relief creams are topical remedies that might feel good when applied but usually wear off in a very short amount of time.
Steroid shots and surgeries are isolated to the location of the pain are unsuccessful when the root cause is elsewhere in the body.
General stretching and massage only provide short-term relief since their focus is on the site of the pain and not the root cause.
Over-the-counter and prescription meds only mask the pain temporarily, which often results in symptoms getting worse over time.
Remedies for neck pain are often limited and provide only short-term relief. Fortunately, there is another proven method that focuses on the root cause, resulting in lasting relief for both acute and chronic neck pain.
Ice, heat, and pain relief creams are topical remedies that might feel good when applied but usually wear off in a very short amount of time.
General stretching and massage only provide short-term relief since their focus is on the site of the pain and not the root cause.
Over-the-counter and prescription meds only mask the pain temporarily, which often results in symptoms getting worse over time.
Steroid shots and surgeries are isolated to the location of the pain are unsuccessful when the root cause is elsewhere in the body.
Remedies applied directly to the hamstrings are often ineffective because the root cause of the pain is usually an imbalance, muscle weakness, or crookedness elsewhere. Muscle tightness, tendonitis, or repetitive stress in the hamstring area is only part of the problem that needs to be addressed. When you have pain, it’s important to look for deeper issues or imbalances elsewhere in the body.
If the natural sitting or standing alignment of the head, shoulders, spine, pelvis, knees, and feet are not balanced and level, then the hamstrings can get imbalanced, short or tight. Often, sitting at a desk all day will change the pelvic and femur positioning in such a way that the hamstrings are held in a shortened position even after you get up and move around. This will cause flattening of the low back and chronic hamstring tightness, in turn causing the tendons and muscles to ache. This chronic tightness makes the hamstrings prone to injury.
For treatment of hamstring pain to be truly effective, it must focus on correcting posture and straightening the joints from head to toe. Posture Therapy is the only method that provides whole-body posture correction and pain relief.
Find someone certified in posture therapy, or try the PTX Therapy App. It is the first personal Posture Therapy app with a posture analyzer that can review your posture, consider your personal pains, history, and movement ability, and create a customized program from millions of possibilities. You’ll learn about your posture, then get a unique-to-you program so you can go from crooked to straight, from pain-ful to pain-free.
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Millions of us wake up each day with muscle, joint or back pain. From loosing your job to giving up your favorite activities, chronic pain can put a real damper on your quality of life.
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