Joint/tendon repair thru negatives

  For anyone with a new or chronic injury, a method that's worked well for me, when I finally did it regularly (duh) is to lift a weight with 2 limbs, and lower it with only the injured limb. I first read about this years ago re Achilles tendon rehab, in which you simply did a bent-knee calf raise with both legs, and lowered the weight with only the injured side.

  I've had a hamstring strain, at the insertion on the ischium, for some time, but it kept fading away before it'd make me buckle down and do something. With this race coming up, I knew I could NOT have a sore ass, so  began, 2x a week, doing semi-stiff-leg ('Romanian') deadlifts, lifting the bar with 2 legs, lowering with the bad one. Damn stuff works, whaddya know. I did regular single-leg RDL's with the good leg, as the same part of the nervous system innervates both hips, so working the good one heals the bad one faster. 

 Hope this helps anyone in pain. The RDL/single-leg RDL are great movements anyway, light-years beyond leg curls for hamstring strengthening, so they're good to pick up.