It's ticklish like the first quarter inch he pushes in and then it....
Alright guys, so I pulled my hamstring pretty bad last week
I was actually doing reverse lunges and I fell scared the crap out of Rikki because he's like my meal ticket!
No my food!
My hamstring actually popped in a few places
I feel ok, but it still feels kind of tight and so my big friend Brandon you guys saw eating Cheerios at the gym
He has a friend, Dr. Tony who
specializes in working with athletes so
Come over. This is Brandon's house. I'm not sure what to expect
I'm just gonna pre-warn you guys out here, but I'm excited to talk to Tony because since I moved down here from up north
I don't have anybody to work on me when I and not even so much when I injure myself
But just just get some maintenance done. So I'm really excited to meet Dr. Tony, let's go in.
Flex, hey sit
Introduce yourself
He so excited now, it's ok.
The star of the show. What's your dogs name? Flex. Named after Flex Wheeler
Alright guys, so this is Dr. Tony Kim and
He's gonna be working on me today and taking a look at my hamstring and basically seeing what I've done and what he can do
All right. For sure. Do you want to tell a little bit about yourself? Yeah, so I'm a chiropractor
I'm a concierge chiropractor. So I just do house calls right now and
I treat mainly in the Central Florida area and my background is with functional fitness and athletes
So I'll kind of take apart Scott right here and then we'll see
What's what. And I guess I should give a little bit of a history of my hamstring
because I've actually injured this hamstring before
The first time I ever injured it, I was young. I was like 18 or 19 and I was just running
my normal route wasn't even pushing myself super hard and I just feel I felt it pull and then that's when I learned that if
You pull your hamstring
A lot of times they fuse when they're healing
yeah, and it actually bothered me off and on for like four or five years because I didn't know that and
It's not like a pain. It's almost like an annoying
It's just there. Yeah, it's just there. It's like you just feel like something happening
And so then I learned that you have to have it, you know basically separated so you can heal properly
and then it's been fine ever since it got worked on but we were doing
Reverse lunges and I could feel that it was like it was tight
and so I was doing a barbell reverse lunge and I was going back like this and
Then when I would go down on the other side, it was almost like I felt unstable
Yeah, and so I was like well
I'm just gonna go tight
And then go all the way down even right here as I go as I get to here
I feel a lot of tension. Yeah I see the instability in the knees. Yeah
And as soon as I got to there it just popped
Yeah
And then I instantly threw the weight back and just got off of it and Rikki thought I tore my quad
He was actually pretty worried
and then yesterday I was doing a back workout and when I was bending over to
Just pick up weight and do rows
I didn't pull it but I was a lot tighter than I thought it was it should have been yeah
So cool
Let me have you face down. Nice go through some exams
What is it? BYOL- Bring Your Own Lube
Am I gonna use any of that?
I mean it felt, it was a nice pop
What are you feeling for right now? Right now, I'm just feeling for some muscle tension usually a few days after a pop
The muscle gets super tight and it's basically the muscles way of letting you know, like hey something's wrong
And so when it gets tight you can feel for any
Dysfunction any adhesions with the other hamstring muscles that are group next to it
And it feels great as you can tell
Yeah, what's the scale of pain right now? On a scale 1-10 is probably like....
A 69
Yeah, 6.9 exactly
I was actually going to say 6 to 7 so it wasn't too far off
Because I can still walk I can still squat down
but once I pass 90 degrees
I feel a lot of tension in the area. All right any pain?
Nope
Okay relax
So that was a muscle test. He passed the muscle test. Yes!
What were you testing for? His hamstring strength, and I was checking for any divots in here in case he tore something mmm
So nothing is torn. Nice. Good job
Now just got to beat it up. That's all we're gonna do
Oh, baby. What is that? It's a hyper vault. It's just vibration therapy. I just use it to
break through some of the muscle first just so the fibers can open up and then
It's a lot easier to treat so the muscles are fatigued a little more.
HAHHDAA get in there HAHHD
Oh by the way Scott told me to tell you this not the first time he's
had abuse so not to go easy on him, so don't be nice like your typical first session. Go real hard.
I use to see someone every 2-3 weeks up north. It's just been a year.
Notice how I'm screaming in pain but not flinching my leg?
You're flinching your neck veins
I'm separating the pain from my lower body transitioning it to my arms
Very odd feeling. So what are we moving on to? To the Graston
Graston or Braston? Graston, G-R-A-S-T-O-N
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So now we're getting deeper into the fascia
You call that deep?!
What's the what's the science behind graston?
If you look on the skin right now, it used to be nice and white now, it's red
so we're breaking up all the blood capillaries and a little bit of the blood a
little bit of the muscle fibers and we're getting the blood to come out to the top
So we're increasing the circulation as we're breaking down some of those fibers in there that's causing the adhesions
Let me hold your hand. Aw, you sweet sweet man
You did this to me!
That's gonna go at the beginning of the video.
Your dog is hungry. No, he's needy he wants to play
He did not eat nothing. I put his food that's his fault
How long ago was your hamstring injury? Friday. No originally when you pulled it long time ago. First time? Yeah, oh
I gonna be 34 so when I was 19
Oh wow
Good combo loosening up pretty fast. Oh
So it's actually not as bad as I thought it was gonna be. What do you think caused the strain there?
To be honest. It's his right hip so
his right hip's a little stuck. Mm-hmm and his hamstring because he's had injuries in the past
The body guards a little bit by laying down a little more scar tissue
so that structural instability kind of got in the way
I was in a car accident when I was 18
Yeah, and my spine is twisted up a little bit
So I'm wondering because even when I squat my hips shift, they don't go perfectly straight. Yeah
Yeah, because for reverse lunges for you to tweak your hamstring like that is a little
Weird yeah
It's not normal, so usually if there's something functional going on that's what happens. About to get cupped, it's gonna be fun
Feels weird, I felt something release
Science behind cupping? Circulation, that's what it is
It's an old ancient acupuncture technique. Most people see it with the fire cupping
Ancient Chinese secret.
For the record Tony's not Chinese
You gave it away
So this is as it goes for the circulation because it vacuums out the older blood
The old blood the body's gonna push in new blood into the muscle
So when doing this technique and people get super bruised that's supposed to get bruised
So the bruising so if the blood turns purple or black then that just means there was a lot of
Old blood stuck in the muscles, which is usually what happens when you get tight muscles for a long time
All right now in Scott's case
Because his injury was pretty acute. Hmm
He probably won't get a lot of bruising per se right now
But over the over the course of the next few days, he might get more bruising
Because more of the blood pumps out cuz he's still in the healing phase
You're making more noise now than I've ever heard from you
It hurts a
I was in a lot of pain in my hamstring over the weekend
What did you get fixed up? Um my calf my hamstring my left ass cheek
And my entire right side of my back, okay. Yes, you know why? Because he couldn't even dead lift 500 pounds
Roll the clip of me doing it.
Do you have a clip of you doing it? Hell yeah
wasn't even that big. Oh you dead lifting 500 pounds in the past
exercise nude before three weeks for eight
Slapped on five plates because I was feeling real macho. Hmm
It's this guy's fault. To be honest.
I thought he was gonna be able to nail it cuz he was he was repping 435
Repping it for 8 it was so easy it felt lighter than it felt
in my entire life grab that 500 it came off the ground my lower back said HA!
So I let go and my ass cheeks and my lower back were like we're gonna lock up real good right now
Did it hurt to bend over? Oh, yeah
I think the issue was if you're not used to doing that heavy on trap bar
Because it is different than conventional
You got to work up to it
So with an injury point I usually treat above the injury point. Mm-hm. Which is why
I released the hip here and then below with the calves
Just to make sure his whole functional chain doesn't lock up on him and there's minimal residual effects from healing nice
Oh, there we go
Feels so good when they come off
So that first one you put on
I felt the muscle
is that cool? Yes. Like it felt like the muscle got sucked up inside the cup
Yeah, and it just kind of gave up after that. Yeah
Yeah, so when it comes to just muscle tightness without with minimal adhesions the goal is to just fatigue the muscle out so that could
Happen with graston, cupping anything like that, but you feel the release mmm
Does it look like I was attacked by a crackin?
Yeah it looks like an octopus had sex with your legs. Just one leg
The other leg just wasn't cutting it. So now what are we doing? So we're checking the hip flexors
Usually when there's anything going on with the pelvis, you always want to make sure and check the hip flexor
It's ticklish like the first quarter inch he pushes in and then it
So Scott goes ass to grass like it's extreme ass to grass, do you feel tension in there?
Good amount of tension. Yeah, but his tendons are very strong
So he has the ability to go ass to grass without major injury. Daddy strong tendons
Yeah, because I stayed natural, I grew over time. Good job muscles
I had to get stronger in order to handle what I do.
I can feel that what's that?
What part are you hitting right now?
We're hitting your adductors so a lot of hamstring injuries come from tight adductors
Hence, a lot of people who pull hamstrings a lot pull their groins a lot too. Mm-hm. So the groups go hand in hand
It's definitely tight
Yeah, are you working out today?
I wasn't really planning on it. Okay. What are you working out tomorrow?
I was probably going to do upper body and leave my legs alone.
Do you think I should do some light work?
Yeah, like a little touch up on hamstring. Okay. Yeah, I can. When tomorrow or today? Tomorrow. Okay, I can do that
Just go on til you get a little pump and stop right there. Okay, so you're not gonna hit legs?
Can't
Doctor's orders. He said no leg day
I'm going to play video games. I'm not gonna edit this video.
Look at this guy. Look at this guy he's so handsome. He just turned a year old.
Oh, yeah, he did. I saw the Instagram post. Yeah, just walk around a little bit.
How your legs feel?
Yesterday I couldn't even go higher than this today I could go higher but now it doesn't feel tight. Should I squat?
No, okay. Not right now. What can I not do for whatever for a long time?
Legs, that's what he wants to hear
Anything that requires you to squat just lay off that for now.
So how many days?
Give it three days and let me know how you feel. Okay, then we'll go from there
So even when I sit down
Just push off my hands don't even really push off my feet. Right, or just kind of rock forward and get up using momentum
All right
This is important stuff to know guys because just because you've worked on the muscle. It doesn't mean it's instantly fixed
Now it has to have time to heal on its own and I don't want to undo basically the work that you've done, right?
He's not Jesus, he's Tony
Close, close, close
Okay, good. We're gonna have to get this guy a wheelchair. Oh, yeah, I mean I felt it release how does that even look?
Wow, it's gonna get dark over the next day or so. Oh, baby. It's gonna be nice
You're gonna get questions you just have to tell people
My wife is extremely kinky. So now that we've had the treatment when do I see you again?
Should I need to see you again? I mean great that I want to see Dr. Tony
and have him work on other areas because
Like I said when I squat my hips shift to the left, and I want to fix that
Yeah, it always irritates me.
So that we'll have to wait till your hamstring heals up until you're kind of back to normal and then go from there
In terms of this specific one. I don't think you'll need to see me again for another couple of weeks
Okay. So after a week you can start testing and pushing it and see how you feel
so just give it just take it easy for about a week just do the touch-up for tomorrow and
then avoid anything that that requires you to squat and then
Next week just start pushing a little bit and just see how you feel
Okay, so just a touch up here and then no more hamstrings the rest of the week and then following Monday
Okay, back to your regular routine. Awesome. Oh, I'll tell you what guys yesterday
When I was at the gym, I was training with my buddy, Nick
I bent over to do bent over row and it hurt and in my head. I just thought I was screwed
I'm like how the hell am I gonna film my videos? How am I gonna film my workouts?
How long is it gonna take the heal? Like I was getting worried this is what I do for a living and
then Brandon was there lifting and he's like Oh
Dr. Tony's coming to my house tomorrow and I was like
It was like a meant to be that I was at the gym the same time as you I was like, all right.
Especially at that time. Yeah it was
I never go that early, I was at the gym at like 2 o'clock
So, oh man, I appreciate it if you guys want to see more from Dr. Tony
let us know by liking the video leaving a comment
And also if you live in the area need some work done check out his IG page. We'll post a link to it
So you guys can find him. All right
#TonyTuesday
Exactly
If it doesn't heal I get my money back? Oh
I'll take a look at it
Obviously, I hope you guys train safe and you don't get injured
But if you do there's nothing worse than not knowing where to turn. So train safe train smart
And if you need to see someone you live in the area give Tony a call
Or maybe you shoot him a DM on Instagram and tell him what your symptoms are
he can point you in the right direction. Have a great day guys.
Well guys, it's been a few hours and so far so good
I heard the blacker it gets the more it's working or something like that. Actually. I really don't know what he said
I was in too much pain
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And I'm just so happy that he helped me out today. I feel so much better. Hope you guys have a great day
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