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Have you ever heard your hamstring make a popping sound?

Posted on 9/20/24 at 9:57 am
Posted by Rex Feral
Member since Jan 2014
14617 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 9:57 am
I was doing deadlifts and felt a sharp pain in my hamstring. It also made a popping sound which the guy I was working out with heard, too. There was no bruising or swelling. I could walk fine. It hurt to bend my leg or squat down. I iced it the first couple days and talked to a PT about it. He said just let it heal for a couple weeks. I don't think I tore it because it's been 5 days and it's feeling fine now.

I've had broken bones that popped and joints that pop all the time, but I didn't know muscles popped. Has this happened to anyone else?
Posted by FightinTigersDammit
Louisiana North
Member since Mar 2006
41159 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:00 am to
No, because my hamstrings aren't trashy.











I kid, I kid.
Posted by white perch
the bright, happy side of hell
Member since Apr 2012
7445 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:01 am to
Getting old sucks
Posted by Chad504boy
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Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:02 am to
Posted by RougeDawg
Member since Jul 2016
6815 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:04 am to
Happened to me while sprinting a few years ago. Didn't know a pop that loud could come from your leg! Doctor said to just rest it.

Healed up fine after a couple of weeks.
Posted by Proximo
Member since Aug 2011
20026 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:08 am to
My rear delt popped when I was repping 600 on deadlift last year and bruised pretty bad

It went away and didn’t have any lasting effect
Posted by onelochevy
Slidell, LA
Member since Jan 2011
17475 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:11 am to
No, only because the noise my knees make would probably overpower it and I wouldn't hear it
Posted by TJack
BR
Member since Dec 2018
3059 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:12 am to
Sure it wasn’t a hemorrhoid going from an innie to an outie?
Posted by marcus3000
Member since Jan 2018
885 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:12 am to
Hell no.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
132616 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:14 am to
quote:

Have you ever heard your hamstring make a popping sound?


Yes.

I tore my hamstring racing my little brother. I was 37 and he was 24 at the time. My hamstring "popped" midway through the race.

I spent the next 4 weeks in rehab.
Posted by clamdip
Rocky Mountain High
Member since Sep 2004
18989 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:17 am to
Yep. Happened to me a couple of months ago.

I'm over 50 and was trying to recapture my youth by slalom waterskiing, but on coming out of the water on the first big pull my front leg and the ski slipped forward towards the boat and felt a very loud pop in my leg. It was a borderline grade 2/3 sprain, so a tear but not as bad as it could be. Took a couple of weeks and some exercises to have it stop nagging me.
Posted by GumboPot
Member since Mar 2009
132616 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:21 am to
quote:

but on coming out of the water on the first big pull my front leg and the ski slipped forward towards the boat and felt a very loud pop in my leg


It sucks when you are ready to extend your leg and a couple of muscle strains are not being cooperative.
Posted by lsusa
Doing Missionary work for LSU
Member since Oct 2005
6086 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:26 am to
Yes. Trying to stretch a double into a triple, just as I was rounding second base. I had to crawl back to the bag and be carried off.

Far worse than tearing my ACL, IMO.
Posted by BruslyTiger
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Member since Oct 2003
4717 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:29 am to
My IT band used to pop when I was working out and was loud enough for people around me to hear it. It never really hurt after but sort of hurt minimally when it happened.
Posted by Sidicous
NELA
Member since Aug 2015
18624 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:35 am to
quote:

No, only because the noise my knees make would probably overpower it and I wouldn't hear it

As kids we used to know when Dad was up and about and where he was due to his knee popping. It could be heard through closed doors and walls.

Not surprisingly the noisy knee was the one he had to get replaced. He lost all the cartilage in it and was walking around bone on bone grinding with each step.
Posted by FlyinTiger93
Member since May 2010
3722 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 10:45 am to
Mine did not make a popping sound when I tore it. Better take precautionary measures, as it set me back 8-9 months.
Posted by xBirdx
Member since Sep 2018
1084 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 11:20 am to
Much better than hearing your Achilles pop….

15 months out from that and still having trouble
Posted by Mid Iowa Tiger
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Member since Feb 2008
21680 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 11:21 am to
Could have been a partial tear. It’s not one big muscle but a bunch of fibers, some of them could have let loose.
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
17884 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 11:24 am to
Yep. Last time that happened to me I was playing left field in a charity softball tournament. I failed to warm up properly before taking the field and around the middle of the game I was chasing down a long fly ball and heard it pop.

Had to come out the game and for the next 2 weeks I had a bad limp and the back of my leg was looking like a tie-dyed t-shirt it had so many different colors showing.
Posted by Mr. Misanthrope
Cloud 8
Member since Nov 2012
6053 posts
Posted on 9/20/24 at 12:33 pm to
Yes. HS Football.
But it involved crippling pain and almost immediate immobilization at the time.
The bruising, as it emerged, was…colorful…purples, yellows, greens, and blacks.
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