Step 5. Train your brain to use new muscle through short, fast repeats. Several times a week, run short, fast repeats. Ten repeats, about 20 seconds long, run at about 90 percent of your maximum speed, will train the brain and nervous system to recruit the leg muscles.
Vitamins may help speed your recovery, in some instances. Vitamin C helps wounds heal quicker by assisting with production of collagen, a protein that your body uses to make connective tissues, such as skin, tendons and ligaments.
Vitamin C. Vitamin C is essential for the production of collagen, which is a support protein found in the tendons of your knees. Also, higher intakes of vitamin C in the diet are associated with a reduction in bone size and fewer bone marrow lesions, and this may decrease risk of knee osteoarthritis.