Your body can heal itself! In fact, your body started healing itself the moment you injured your hamstring and it's the blood in your body that makes it all happen.
Your blood is the transport mechanism for everything that's good inside you. It carries oxygen, nutrients and water.
Swelling, inflammation and lack of leg/knee movement reduce the flow of blood to your injury. If you are moving your injured muscle around you run a risk of increasing the severity of the injury via muscle strain. If there has been some healing, you could re-injure the muscle tissue all over again.
Proper blood flow to your leg is essential for healing. Unfortunately, when you injure your hamstring, you have reduced muscle mobility so you stop moving and the swelling sets in. That means your vital blood flow can be reduced to a trickle!
This is a critical time! Once the inflammation is gone it may feel like you can return to your regular sports, hobbies, exercise or other activities - but your hamstring is in a weakened state, unstable, and still injured. Even the slightest movement or twist in the wrong direction can worsen your injury and increase the swelling yet again. Most "weekend warriors" and amateur athletes will start going back to what they were doing before they injured their hamstring, and that is where they get it wrong. Medical professionals know that the injury is still there even if the pain is gone.
Blood Flow - the natural healing process in your body - needs assistance for such injuries because blood flow is greatly restricted when you are immobile. When treating a hamstring injury or really any type of soft tissue injury (ie. tendonitis, spasm, tears, hamstring surgical recovery), an effective treatment will increase blood flow to the injury while the joint is immobile. This increase in blood flow will help maximize the body's own capability to heal itself.
There are a LOT of people out there that do not understand how effective A TShellz Wrap really is. Once initial swelling from the injury is reduced by using a Cold Compress or Ice Pack - this is where the Circulation Boost effect from a Leg TShellz Wrap really starts to shine!
Swelling and inflammation is your body responding to an injury. A lot of pain will probably disappear as the swelling disappears, and many people make the wrong assumption that their hamstring injury must be healing as most of the pain is gone. Once you have reduced the swelling with cold, your injury is still there.
Building strong healthy tissue is part of the healing process and needs to be dealt with first to minimize your chance or re-injury or overcompensation injuries. You can help soft tissue in the hamstring during this healing process by increasing blood flow in the area with a Leg TShellz Wrap®.
With regular use of the TShellz Wrap:
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No matter what has caused your hamstring injury, it's important to reduce pain, swelling and inflammation as soon as possible. Getting rid of your swelling is the 1st, most important, step in your recovery process. Getting rid of swelling will reduce the amount of tissue damage happening to your leg and open up the blood vessels in your soft tissue so your muscles and tendons can receive more blood flow.
Increasing blood flow is then a priority to bring in all the essential elements needed for natural healing within your own body. An increased blood flow is key as this maximizes the bodys ability to self heal. An increase in blood flow accompanied with heat in soft tissue is known to help increase range of motion, and improve the flexibility of soft tissue - ensuring that the soft tissue recovery period does not last years.
If you want to heal quickly, you need to keep your blood moving and that's where Circulatory Boost, comes in.
As we have mentioned elsewhere, blood flow is the critical delivery system of oxygen and nutrients that your body requires, and this is especially true when it comes to healing. This becomes a problem when there is an injury, as blood flow is usually restricted significantly. For an overwhelming majority of cases, it is important to recognize that recovery speed from a soft tissue injury (tendon,muscle,ligament) is dependent on blood flow circulation.
What is Circulatory Boost? It's a substantial increase in the flow of blood to your injured leg without the need to exercise your already damaged hamstring muscle.
Have you seen what happens when you add water to a flower wilted from drought? In essence, your injured hamstring is much like a "wilted" flower; your body wants to heal its injury, but needs lots of nutrients to do it. Blood brings new life to your tissue by delivering healing nutrients and oxygen that are vital for its survival. In addition, the blood carries away toxins and waste - cleaning the area and healing it faster. Without a good supply of blood, your hamstring muscles simply won't heal properly.
In order to get maximum blood flow to the hamstring muscle, you need to help your body stimulate blood flow. Circulatory Boost via a TShellz Wrap® is the fast, easy and pain-free way to increase blood flow. It is a key part of a home conservative treatment plan.
When you apply the Leg TShellz Wrap® to your hamstring, you will feel a mild heat sensation. During a treatment, and for quite some time after you finish, the treated area will experience increased blood flow even though your body is at rest. It's a soothing sensation and extremely effective.
Health is general term, but most of you would say that athletes are more healthy than the average person. Why is this? Probably because an athlete undergoes much more physical activity and because of this, they have more healthy soft tissue. As you exercise muscles in your body, they increase in size and strength; they also require more bloodflow. The circulatory system is also "exercised" during physical activity, and it benefits from this as well by becoming stronger and delivering more bloodflow throughout the body. The more physical activity you undergo, the stronger your circulatory system becomes, delivering more oxygen and nutrients to your body in a more efficient manner.
You might also notice that athletes usually heal more quickly from soft tissue injuries than non-athletes. This is a prime example of how better blood flow circulation will have an impact on healing time. The circulation system of athletes bring a healing advantage that can be quite considerable. The TShellz Wrap is how you can literally gain that bloodflow advantage that only athletes usually have - just around the treatment area rather than through the whole body.
When you are physically active you probably notice that your blood is pumping harder. Your heart is increasing blood flow to deliver more oxygen to starved muscles, as well as take away waste materials (metabolic byproducts such as lactic acid) so they don't start collecting in your soft tissue. If your blood flow cannot keep up with your activity, your muscles tire and waste materials will build up, causing temporary weakness and soreness in the overused muscle groups. It is a very practical example of why blood flow is important; the best athletes generally have the best and most efficient circulatory system. They can keep going (ie. riding a bicycle up a mountain in the Tour De France) when others simply cannot.
The increased flow of blood from a TShellz Wrap treatment is much the same as would be gained from physical activity, only it occurs in the localized treatment area rather than the whole body.
Through the use of a TShellz Wrap® your injured leg is constantly being fed with healing, nutritious, oxygen and energy filled blood. This is exactly what your body needs to heal.
A Leg/Arm TShellz Wrap® is purely a Circulatory Boost workhorse! It is why we made them. They have been specifically designed for boosting blood flow, reducing inflammation and relieving pain from damaged soft tissue in the leg or arm.
TShellz Wraps® contain an Energy Pad which is very pliable and will conform pretty much anywhere on the arm or leg area. The Energy Pad emits a uniform wave of energy over the entire treatment area. This energy travels into soft tissue, stimulating blood flow that your body requires to help heal your injury. Blood flow is crucial to the healing process.
The unit plugs into a wall outlet to get its power. It has a special signal controller which can be set for 3 different power levels of application (3=High, 2=Medium, 1=Low). The cord is long enough that you can sit or lie comfortably and watch TV, read or surf the net while you're using it.
The TShellz Wraps significantly increase bloodflow in your leg or arm - period.
With regular use of the Leg TShellz Wrap:
We field a lot of calls from our customers that want to know why our TShellz Wraps® don't come with a battery powered option. The simple answer is that our TShellz Wraps® use a lot of power. We tried looking at batteries, but we found that a high capacity (and high cost) lithium-ion battery would last barely long enough for an adequate treatment time - and then it would need to be recharged. The amount of power that our wrap uses over such a short span of time should really drive home the fact that our TShellz Wraps® are real, industrial strength treatment devices; currently, for us to provide a battery option for our wraps we would have to reduce the level of output (ie. treatment power) emitted from the wrap. The lower the energy output, the less effective the device will be which is why our TShellz Wrap units are plug-in units only.
When treating a hamstring with hot and cold treatments there are a couple of points to consider. Take breaks between ice pack treatments to ensure you do not freeze your skin - this rarely happens but it is important to look out for. To heal fast we need the right temperature at the right time. The use of ice packs to minimize swelling (at onset of injury or during flare ups), TShellz Wrap® applications and a exercise/stretching routine (assigned by your PT) will give you the greatest chance for a complete recovery through home based options.
Do you have a strained, sprained, pulled, torn, cramped or spasming hamstring muscle that's painful, sore and always seems to get re-injured? This could be a sign that you have a lot of scar tissue in your hamstring. The growth of scar tissue is ultimately what causes stiffening in your muscle, restricting movement and flexibility.
During the healing process your body will fill in tears in your hamstring with dense, brittle tissue called "scar tissue". The human body will use scar tissue as a temporary solution and will try to build the scar tissue as fast as possible to heal a strain or tear.
Scar tissue is one of the MAIN reasons why your hamstring injury just hasn't healed. Even when the inflammation is gone, scar tissue will still be there to wreak havoc on the elasticity of your hamstring and range of motion. On-going issues with scar tissue can even result in a worsening muscle tear, a full rupture, related soft tissue injuries to nearby tendons or ligaments, hip & knee joint instability, or surgery may be the only solution.
Scar tissue will form fast to deal with a strain, pull or tear to your hamstring, but working fast doesn't mean that the job's done right. When scar tissue forms it doesn't come together as neatly as regular (healthy) tissue would. Scar tissue fibers will lay down over top of your injury in a cluttered, messy and jumbled up way.
This is how scar tissue works. The scar tissue that forms to fix your hamstring injury will be unorganized and won't line up properly with the healthy tissue surrounding the injury site. This scar tissue will also attach to everything in that area, including the surrounding healthy tissue as well. This can result in a long-term fusing together of the soft tissue that stiffens your hamstring, reducing your mobility and making your injury even more painful!
Scar tissue is a major problem especially when it comes to a hamstring injury - causing your injury to take months or even YEARS to completely heal!
You can reduce scar tissue growth and inhibit further injury to your hamstring by increasing blood flow to that area. We feel that treating yourself with a Leg/Arm TShellz Wrap® is the easiest and most effective way to help improve Range of Motion, reduce pain in the area, reduce risk of worsening the injury while helping minimize the growth of stubborn scar tissue.
When applied before activity or work, the TShellz Wrap® will also relax and lengthen your soft tissue to help improve your range of motion and prevent atrophy (wasting away) of your injured hamstring.
Overall, continued treatment with a Leg TShellz Wrap® is intended to relax and lengthen soft tissue; this helps improve range of motion while combatting atrophy (wasting away) of muscles, tendons and ligaments in the area. The TShellz Wrap® is intended to reduce the chance of degenerative conditions by maximizing blood flow where it's needed most, preventing further damage, and dealing with scar tissue.
It may seem hard to believe, but regardless of what type of muscle or tendon injury you have, our Leg TShellz Wrap will assist you in recovering from your injury by maximizing blood flow where it's needed most, preventing further damage, and dealing with scar tissue.
TShellz Wraps® are what we believe to be the most highly effective home medical devices out there - helping boost blood circulation, increase elasticity of soft tissue, reduce inflammation and minimize pain. It is a product we have developed specifically for this purpose. You can be certain it will do this, as we give full refunds if this is not the case.
As your body continues to recover you will notice a decrease in pain and the range of motion in your leg will improve. So not only do you heal, but with every treatment you can feel the difference - you can tell your injury is getting better.
Like all our products, TShellz Wraps® are of very high quality. We have them for every part of the body. And, of course, we guarantee our wraps with the MendMeShop 60 day, money back guarantee. If for any reason you're not happy with any product you purchase in our shop, you can send it back for a full product refund. We also provide a full year warranty on our TShellz Wrap® devices.
So, if you're really looking for top notch home treatments to treat your chronic leg or arm injury; if you're looking to reduce inflammation, treat scar tissue, boost your blood circulation and strengthen soft tissue quickly, the Leg/Arm TShellz Wrap®, a Cold Compress or Ice Pack and a stretch/exercise routine (assigned by your physician or PT) are exactly what you require. We feel the TShellz Wraps® are a vital component of an exceptional home based conservative treatment approach to maximizing your soft tissue injury recovery process.
AidYourHamstring is committed to bringing you quality products for helping you relieve pain and boost blood flow to maximize your home recovery. These products come highly recommended by our customers. If you have injured soft tissue in your hamstring that you want to heal quickly, harness the power of your own body to heal itself and use a TShellz Wrap® to boost blood flow in your leg. That's why we sell them, because they are the best.
For Post-Surgery Recovery, cold is recommended by doctors to treat your pain in a natural, non-addictive way and to reduce swelling.
After the incision site has healed, use our TShellz Wraps to stimulate blood flow in the area. Using the TShellz Wrap as soon as pain & swelling has reduced following your surgery will help minimize scar tissue growth in the leg that forms as you heal. Treating scar tissue is arguably the most important step following surgery, especially in a joint as scar tissue growth will impact range of motion in the joint.
Leaving post-surgery scar tissue untreated can lead to stiffness, chronic pain, osteoarthritis or other chronic conditions. You're more likely to end up with another injury if you choose not to actively treat the scar tissue that develops in your leg - this is why pretty much all post surgery recoveries involve physio (PT). Circulatory Boost encourages more oxygen and nutrients to flow to the area to help your body in its recovery process. An increase in blood flow should also help improve the strength of soft tissue in the area.
The Leg-Arm TShellz Wrap® is designed to treat upper leg, lower leg, thigh, and upper arm. Further to this, since it is very flexible, it can be used over the knee if needed. Our Leg TShellz Wraps® are universal, meaning one Leg Wrap can be used to treat the left and/or the right leg (or either arm too).
Common soft tissue injuries where conservative treatment options may be recommend often include:
Though the Leg-Arm TShellz Wrap® can be used over the knee, if there is significant treatment time required for the knee, we would advise the use of the Knee TShellz Wrap®, as the fit is more secure and comfortable for longer term treatments on the knee.
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After treating your soft tissue injury with TShellz Wraps, you will arrive at a point where there is no longer any pain and you find that you can get around much more easily without pain. This often happens after a couple days of treatments and some rest on the sofa. Be careful! This is often where trouble can start.
Since the pain is gone, you can mistakenly start thinking your injury is healed. Not knowing this, we start become active like we used to again and in so doing, interrupt the healing process and start to stress the partially injured hamstring, often re-injuring it again. We continually re-injure the hamstring through our daily activities and now this injury has become a chronic injury.
Eventually, we use the other leg more and more - or significantly change our gait to minimize the pain from movement. This is why the other joints start to hurt, and then really hurt - they are being overused now. Soon, aches and pain can become commonplace in the lower body, hips and lower back - all as a result of the original hamstring injury and the body's instictive nature to "protect" the injured leg.
With a chronic soft tissue injury, odds of surgery increase as do the odds of more soft tissue injuries due to overcompensation. What I'm saying is this: once you start feeling better and the pain has disappeared, your injury is still there. Depending on the type of injury and/or condition, it may take another 4 months to heal. Contine your home conservative treatments such as: TShellz Wraps at least twice per day to continue boosting blood flow in the area and reducing your risk of reinjury.
When applied before activity or work, the TShellz Wrap helps relax and lengthen soft tissue. This helps improve your temporary range of motion, reducing risk of increased atrophy in the area. Continued treatment with a TShellz Wrap® will maintain good health in the soft tissue and significantly reduce risk of re=injury.
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It may seem hard to believe, but our Leg TShellz Wraps® will assist you in recovering from your injury by reducing your swelling and inflammation induced pain and maximizing blood flow where it's needed most.
Here at AidYourHamstring we pride ourselves in helping you with your healing and recovery process. Everyone at AidYourHamstring has tested and used the products, finding solutions to conditions that do not fit into the norm. This dedication to our customers and our products goes hand-in-hand with our guarantees to you as a customer:
The TShellz Wraps® are FDA Registered Medical Devices, and are suitable for use at home and in health professional clinics. Since they are completely safe for patients to use themselves as instructed, they are now available for use at home.
Once treatment is complete, you also have the option of tightening the straps to provide light compression support for your injured joint. You can also unplug the device from the power supply enabling you to move around the home, office or clinic freely and still use the wrap for support and comfort.
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During your recovery, you will probably have to modify and/or eliminate any activities that cause pain or discomfort at the location of your soft tissue injury until the pain and inflammation settle. The more diligent you are with your treatment and rehabilitation, the faster you will see successful results!
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