Hamstring Advice

BenEadir

Hi all,

My son is 9 and loves sport (Hurling, Football, Taekwondo etc). He is doing some core exercises each day (pressups, planks etc) as he's quite skinny and want's to develop better strength and stamina.

He got up yesterday morning with what seems to be a hamstring pull. He was fine going to bed and doesn't remember doing anything which would have resulted in a pull but he is hobbling around. To begin with I thought it was a small strain so rubbed some deep heat in and told him to take it easy but this evening it seems to be worse not better so he took a hot bath after which I rubbed in more deep heat and put some tubi grip between his knee and the top of his leg.

Does anyone here have any advice for me? I'm thinking about bringing him to the Doctor in the morning if it's not clearly on the mend but I'm not even sure if going to the GP is the right thing. Should I bring him for a scan of some sort to see if it is a hamstring tear or to a physio? I guess the GP is the right place to start and then follow their advice but as I'm a Boardsie I thought I'd get some expert input here first!!

Thanks,

Ben

kincsem

This is on the sticky

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RacoonQueen

Tubigrip won't really do much unless there's actually any swelling there. I'd bring him to a physio.