You can clang heads. You can snap a hamstring. You can get spiked in the soft tissue.
Often hamstring injuries that seem to occur suddenly are set up by a gradual weakening of the tendon over time, caused by overstretching and insufficient rest.
Say that you're a flexible yoga teacher. Each day you wake up and practice hamstring stretches, then demonstrate deep forward bends in your classes.
He felt a slight twinge in his damaged hamstring.
However, if you have an existing hamstring injury, be sure to introduce these poses gradually.
Ferguson is already without Michael Owen, who is underwent hamstring surgery on Monday that has ended the former England forward's season.
He was curled up in your erstwhile empty box, licking his feet and belly, stretched out in all sorts of yoga positions which would hamstring a human tried 'em.
Meanwhile, work on strengthening and stretching your hip, hamstring and lower-back muscles.
To prevent an upper-hamstring injury, you need to approach straight-leg forward bends gradually and with awareness, taking any pain near the sitting bone seriously.
During the later stages of recovery from a hamstring injury, you can build strength while stretching the hamstring muscles mildly in Supta Padangusthasana.
While sitting for any length of time, take frequent standing breaks to alleviate atrophy of the hamstring muscles.
After all the Germans' oft-expressed fears about Schweinsteiger's hamstring, here he was in imperious form.
On the last day before I was due to resume full training I sprinted and felt a twinge in my hamstring. Another scan showed the injury had happened again.
Sprinters pull this muscle more than distance runners, but as I discovered, even straining your hamstring can limit your ability to run fast.
In 2005, torn right hamstring.
He lasted only four minutes of the game and scans revealed he had a torn hamstring and calf.
If bending forward with straight legs causes pain below one sitting bone, you may have injured your hamstring tendon.