Quote Originally Posted by KnottedYet View Post
That's what you want. Make the tissue "twinge" 10-15 times (1 second twinges) 3-6 sessions a day for 6-8 weeks.

You know you're doing it right if the pain stops immediately or within at most 30 minutes of stopping the activity.

If you don't "twinge" it regularly, your body will never get the message that the scar tissue needs to be remodeled. If it doesn't remodel, it will never improve.

ETA: it doesn't matter what the activity is, as long as it recreates your twinge you feel on the bike. Find something simple that won't take you more than a minute, because you'll be doing it a lot for the next couple months!
Thanks Knotted, I hoped you would weigh in on this. I will try to figure out some way to do this. I am at a loss right now about how to recreate this off the bike but haven't had my coffee just yet I think I must have pushed it a little longer on the bike yesterday than I should have since I woke up in the night with some aching from that quad - but it WAS my third day in a row for riding, so rest day today & will find some Tiger Balm.

Bmccasland - the scar tissue is in the muscle (both quad and hamstring) from my overuse injuries last year. Hamstring injury was from deadlifting at the gym without proper warmup, quad injury (same leg) was from the bike... It took a long time to figure out what caused everything because they appeared to happen at the same time.

Time to toddle off for coffee now, the office coffee pot sounds like it is done