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2. These Hamstring Stretches Help You Stay Limber and Pain ... - AOL

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   Easy hamstring stretches to try at home Below, both trainers share a few basic, easy moves to get you started. Bentivogolio recommends warming up first with a quick jog in place to get the blood ...

3. The 10 Best Hamstring Stretches to Relieve Tightness and ...

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   As a runner, I'm no stranger to tight hamstrings. Between sprints, hills and long hauls on the treadmill, I put my posterior muscles through the wringer just about every week. Dynamic warm-ups and ...

4. Try These Helpful Hamstring Stretches to Loosen Up Your Legs

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   A physical therapist shares a series of hamstring stretches that will improve your lower body flexibility, improve performance, and help loosen tight muscles.

5. Pulled hamstring - Wikipedia

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   Initial treatment of the injury, regardless of the severity of the strain, is the same. Within the first five days, the hamstring is rested in an elevated position with an ice pack applied for twenty minutes every two hours. A compression bandage is applied to limit bleeding and swelling in the tissues.

6. Hamstringing - Wikipedia

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   In humans, the hamstring extends between the hip and knee joints. The hamstring muscle group is made up of the biceps femoris, semitendinosus muscle, and the semimembranosus. [2] It facilitates both the flexing of the knee and hip extension, [3] making it a vital contributor to normal leg-movement. By severing these muscles or the tendons ...

7. Sprain - Wikipedia

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   A sprain is a soft tissue injury of the ligaments within a joint, often caused by a sudden movement abruptly forcing the joint to exceed its functional range of motion.. Ligaments are tough, inelastic fibers made of collagen that connect two or more bones to form a joint and are important for joint stability and proprioception, which is the body's sense of limb position and movem

8. Nerve glide - Wikipedia

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   For hamstring flexibility, dynamic stretching targets low extremity muscles, while nerve gliding exercise targets posterior low extremity muscles and neural structures. Although both nerve gliding exercises and dynamic stretching do not lead to huge changes in exercise performance, both stretching methods are essential for pre-exercise ...

9. Reciprocal inhibition - Wikipedia

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   For example, if the quadriceps femoris and hamstring contract simultaneously at a high intensity, the stronger muscle (traditionally the quadriceps) overpowers the weaker muscle group (hamstrings). This can result in a common muscular injury known as a pulled hamstring, more accurately called a muscle strain.