Hamstring Injuries In Distance Athletes With Nate Helming (The Run Experience)

01/17/18 • 66 min

Funny... I reached out to Nate since he has such great Youtube videos for runners but after emailing back and forth for a bit I realized we met 7 years ago at an Ironman 70.3 where I treated his hamstring. What a small world!

He has a great story about how he dealt with his hamstring injury and how he came to use those same methods to assist runners have better running experience.

Nate Helming founded The Run Experience with the goal of reaching a broader audience of runners and outdoor enthusiasts who want to be able to run and enjoy the outdoors and remain injury-free. He has helped athletes finish their first races, conquer new distances, overcome pre-existing injuries, set new PRs, reach the podium, and qualify for national and world level events.

Nate Helming is based in San Francisco and in addition to coaching runners and triathletes of all levels, he trains Olympic level cyclists, professional triathletes, elite mountain bikers, and national-level ultra runners on strength and mobility. Nate has traveled around the world to speak about better strength training for endurance athletes, and regularly publishes videos and articles on how runners can do it better! You can follow him on Instagram and Twitter and visit him in person at San Francisco Crossfit for one of his classes or one-on-one sessions.

Video References:

Hill Running (up)

Downhill Running

Push up Form

Find him here!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therunexperience

Twitter: @TREtraining

IG: @therunexperience

Youtube: The Run Experience

Sebastian’s Youtube Channel for hamstring videos.

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Show Notes: https://www.p2sportscare.com/70

Dr. Sebastian Gonzales is an expert in trouble shooting sports injuries and overuse conditions. This podcast is intended for sports medicine topics to become easier for patients and athletes to understand. Don’t get confused by what your doctor told you in your appointment. If you like in Orange County CA, book an exam with Dr. Gonzales, your Huntington Beach Chiropractor.

SHOW NOTES

He has a great story about how he dealt with his hamstring injury and how he came to use those same methods to assist runners have better running experience.

Video References:

Hill Running (up)

Downhill Running

Push up Form

Find him here!

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/therunexperience

Twitter: @TREtraining

IG: @therunexperience

Youtube: The Run Experience

Sebastian’s Youtube Channel for hamstring videos.

Attention Docs and Fitness Professionals: Access your client educational products, banners and posters here.

Show Notes: https://www.p2sportscare.com/70

Previous Episode

Hamstring Anatomy Facts And Stories From Anonymous Guests

SHOW NOTES

In this session we are going into some personal accounts of hamstring strains. In school, clinicians seem to get the textbook presentations... then they get out into the real world of healthcare and see all of the uniqueness of people and situations. People are unique... this is why case studies are great.

The patient’s I’m interviewing are not people I have confirmed have a hamstring injury but I did ask my network of people to find a “hamstring strain” for the interviews.

Do we need to know if they are truly hamstring strains or not? No, the takeaway from this session will be that this is what people experience when they “feel they have a hamstring strain.”

Other possible diagnosis for hamstring region pain are:

Lumbar Radiculitis
Referred Muscular Pain
Sacroiliac joint Dysfunction
Inflammatory/metabolic causes

Amongst a bunch of other things...

Always go see your sports doctor for a proper examination and treatment plan. Book an appt with Dr. Sebastian today!

Sebastian’s Youtube Channel for hamstring videos.

Attention Docs and Fitness Professionals: Access your client educational products, banners and posters here.

You can access the show notes at https://www.p2sportscare.com/podcast/

Next Episode

Training And Lifting With A Hamstring Injury Brenan Ghassemieh

SHOW NOTES

Brenan Ghassemieh was introduced to me by a good friend, Dr. Cody Dimak (Session 31), as the perfect guy to speak about training responsibility around injuries. Since we’ve been focusing on hamstring injuries, we kept that as a central focus BUT it’s important to realize the body works as ONE UNIT and we can’t separate regions in training and rehab. You’ll hear this concept of centrality throughout the entire podcast.

A few major points/ concepts we come back to are:

Hamstring tightness vs the “feeling of tightness”
Exercises to train the hamstring that are safe
If you’re feeling a hamstring “grab” during exercises then it’s not normal
Training of the hamstring centers around posture, compound lifts and eccentrics
Hamstring tightness is not always bad
Assessment of an individual starts with observation!

Videos Correlated:

Everything can be found in this single video

Assessments movements to watch:

SRDL
Goblet Squat
Lateral Squat
Lateral Wedge

Warm-ups or Movement Prep:

Lateral Band Crab Walks
Lateral Squat (just record once)
Rotational Squat
Side Bridge
Pallof Press
Anti-Cops
Rotational Chops
Curtsy Lunges
Transverse Lunges

If you’re a clinician this is the perfect podcast session to share with that patient who’s been asking questions about what they can/can’t do in the gym with a hamstring strain.

If you’re a patient/athlete you need to be examined first and properly diagnosed with the CORRECT condition before you rehab. Movement is everything and often times you need to be cued properly by a professional.

Contact Brenan

IG: @brenan_ghassemieh

Email: [email protected]

Sebastian’s Youtube Channel for hamstring videos.

Attention Docs and Fitness Professionals: Access your client educational products, banners and posters here.

You can access the show notes at https://www.p2sportscare.com/71