Hamstring hell relief

PLAYING sport at any level, not to mind for your county, can take its toll on the body. For Andy Moran, 28, a Mayo GAA footballer who won his first All-Star in 2011, it was his hamstring in his left leg and lower back that gave him trouble.

“I developed hamstring trouble in 2006,” says Andy who plays Gaelic football with his club Ballaghaderreen GAA Club, and is a member of the Mayo senior inter-county team. “I had a stiffness in my leg and a pain up through my leg and into my lower back. I just didn’t have a full range of motion in it.

I played on with the hamstring - I never actually tore it. But I’d feel that I couldn’t sprint with it or use my full running power. I would feel like it was restricted,” he says.