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Went to see Mårten Prosell in the morning about my painful hamstring. Mårten is the guy everyone in the club swears by, and the guy they go to for all their aches and pains. Mårten uses needles, long and thin ones. I walked in, told him about my injury and my history of injuries on the left side (including the fact that Mårten treated me back in 2009 with no success.)
I was then put on a massage table, and Mårten started sticking the needles into my hamstring. This hurt a lot, with various degrees of pain in different parts of the hamstrings. I managed not to cry, but I did sweat a lot. Sometimes the pain would radiate, either up into my butt or down towards the knee. That was unpleasant.
Mårten then decided that the hamstring problems might be caused by my back, so in went more needles, this time into my back. This also hurt. He showed me that the left side of my back was way stiffer than the right, and the needles went in much easier on the right side and with no pain. He then manipulated my back for a while, cracking and bending it a bunch of times.
Then, a new round of needles in the hamstring. This time - no pain, and the needles went in easily. I have no idea if he magically fixed me in one treatment, and why it worked if he did, but my hamstring has felt way looser all day. I am still in lots of pain, but it's a different kind of pain, caused by the needles. I am scheduled to see him again on Friday, and then once more next week. We'll see how this goes.