Rehab for mild hamstring pull?

[Catrin]

Rest, Rest, Rest, Rest, REST

I started the same way, with your symptoms, in September, after a spring and summer of hard cycling. I tried to ignore it and kept riding - and only succeeded in making the problem worse and also developed tendinitis in both hamstring and quad. Please note that I did try to take it easy, rode/spun easier, avoided steep hills and so forth but that did not help. Rest is the main treatment for a pulled hamstring and the older we are the longer it takes to heal. I am still having issues with this 3 months later - all because I ignored advice to rest properly when I first did it.

So rest, ummmmm did I say rest? I am the current TE poster child of what not to do with a hamstring injury - don't be like me