I have been suffering from high hamstring tendinopathy for 7 months. I am a weightlifter, so my training consists almost exclusively snatch, clean and jerk, back squat, front squat, pulls/deadlift. I have pain with eccentric loading, mostly on the way down in a squat, and in the front leg of the split jerk, also pain with walking up stairs and a couple other activities of daily living. I have been doing ART, graston, kinesiotaping, and a couple of eccentric strengthening exercises (glute bridge and single leg deadlift), and nothing seems to help. Do you guys have any advice? Do I need to stop squatting completely? All the info out there is geared toward runners, and I’m not sure if it would change for a strength athlete. If yall have a protocol for this I would definitely buy it! Thanks! Dani
@DaniBK overall tendinopathies are in issue of load management to the affected area. We typically don’t advocate for stopping particular movements unless symptoms are severe in all parts of the range of motion. However, for people in your situation I do typically move away from high velocity movements in order to help manage symptoms. With that said, since this has been ongoing for the past 7 months, I recommend a consult with us so we can help guide this path. There are no quick fixes to tendinopathic issues but rather a consistent focus on managing load appropriately while dosing in movement to tolerance. The average recommended time-frame is 12 weeks and this isn’t a guarantee but rather can be manipulated based on the individual’s case - in other words, we need to embrace the mindset that this will be a process early on. Typically I advocate for heavy slow resistance for provocative movements (3.0.3) and an LP style program. Happy to help.