Presents as:
- Pain/discomfort whilst running or after a run around the sit bones and glute, extending down the back of the leg
- Pain with prolonged sitting whilst driving or on a hard surface
- Pain with lunging, hamstring stretching
- Pain that ‘warms up’ but is worse the next day
Causes:
- Sudden increase in running distance and/or intensity: starting a new training block, coming back to running after a period of time off
- Rapid introduction of faster running sessions: tempo’s, fartlek, hills or track intervals
Management:
- Initial reduction in training volume: reduce number of total runs and change session type to avoid rapid accelerations in pace and excessive hills, opt for steady state running.
- Initially reduce gym work that excessively stretches the hamstring: avoid weighted deadlifts, lunging and squatting.
How a physiotherapist can help:
- Education on training load and modifying sessions
- Structured, progressive reloading of the hamstring tendon with strength work
- Massage to reduce muscle tightness and for pain relief
- Running gait assessment to identify muscle imbalance or poor biomechanics
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Our story is told through our clinicians, so here’s our team!
Mark Davis brings with him a wealth physiotherapy clinical experience and expertise in all areas of musculoskeletal, orthopaedic, sports and general rehabilitation. Mark is a leader in Australia in the areas of gym-based rehabilitation, prehab, optimising function and performance-based exercise prescription. He is a presenter at national fitness industry conventions and has been seminal in the development of new material and teaching of the fitness industry in this area of exercise and rehabilitation
Tylana Woodward is a Physiotherapist/Exercise Physiologist with a clinical specialty in the field of Women’s and Men’s Health. Musculoskeletal and orthopaedic conditions of the lumbar spine, pelvis and lower limbs are also part of her clinical interest and not to forget anything running related! Tylana takes a ‘hand-on’ focus with treatment, supplemented with adjunctive individual and group-based exercise therapy and performs real-time ultrasound scans to help her Women’s and Men’s health patients. Other areas of interest are training based programming for running sports, combined with a special interest in nutrition.
Mitchell Shorten is a Physiotherapist with a special interest in the areas of pain science, injury prevention strategies, and healthy aging. He is a keen advocate for pushing the Physiotherapy profession forward through evidence-based practice and has been the driving force behind our up and coming patient and clinician education resources. Mitch keeps an eye on Twitter for newly published articles to share with our team and the wider community. He has now been with Physio Noosa for a year and has really found his groove. He has also worked as a university clinical educator, community rehab Physio and for sporting teams around Brisbane.
Courtney Geraghty is our Remedial Massage Therapist and strength and conditioning guru. She attained her Massage Qualifications through Q Academy Sunshine Coast and has been working in the massage industry for the last 4 years. As well as Remedial Massage, Courtney also holds additional qualifications in strength and conditioning, sports taping and track and field coaching.
Kara Barnett is our practice manager and brings with her a wealth of business, bookkeeping, organisational and customer service expertise. She successfully manages to keep all the clinical staff organised and on track each day. Our day would not function without her at the helm!
