I landed on my hamstring in an odd way, it felt like some one crumpled paper in my leg, should i get it checked out? i was able to walk and put pressue on it jog a little with no pain, but when i tried to sprint i felt a sharp pain. As soon as i got home i iced it and wrapped it, any insight?
2006-08-03 20:40:31 · 5 answers · asked by r_ragonesi 2 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Injuries
Yes, you should get this checked out. Sometimes people get hairline tears in their hamstrings, acutally one on the most common injury to that area. Also tendonitis can cause this, which if you don't do too much of the same movement at normal rate it won't hurt. but increase the repititions and wow pain. Also a lack of Potassium in hot weather can do this also or low vitamin K in the body. You might think it was the way you landed on it but maybe any one of the above. I'm not a doctor but have had alot of tendonitis and I thought it was the way I had landed but it was something more, I got a shot of cortisone and all was well. Have it checked out it's better to be safe than sorry in the long run.
2006-08-03 20:52:50 · answer #1 · answered by M360 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I was at Sandy Beach in Hawaii on holiday two weekends ago. I got picked up by a a wave, and dumped on the bottom, and the wave crashed on top of me. Talk about the maytag expericence! Anyways, my left ankle was pretty screwed up. the doc gave me motrin and told me to stay off it for a couple of days. Well, a week later, I got home, and it still hurt. So I tied Xango, which I had been on before my holiday. It has natural antiinflammatores, but they are not synthethics, they work only one the problems. It helped a lot faster than motrin! And motin causes stomach problems, that is why they say take it with food, no alcohol, etc. Xango is natural. here are a couple of sites. The first one will show if someone else has had the same injury as you. There are lots of joint pain things there. The second is more about Xango, and if you wnat some how to get it. Hope they help.
2006-08-03 20:55:22 · answer #2 · answered by k r i s 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sounds like you have a muscle strain. You are on the right track with the ice, stick with that for 48 hours. Then switch to heat if you are still having pain. You should also rest for a few days, allow the muscle to heal.
2006-08-03 20:50:28 · answer #3 · answered by Joe 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Instead of going home, you should have gone into the emergency room instead. You could have a torn muscle.
2006-08-03 20:44:56 · answer #4 · answered by Equinox 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i'm a paramedic and if you would told me that you would have gone to the er,leave it at that
2006-08-03 20:50:46 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋