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.
Food is the best source of ascorbic acid, which your body needs for tissue growth and wound healing, iron absorption and maintaining bones, teeth and capillaries. Vitamin C helps form collagen, a protein essential to developing skin, blood vessels, muscle, cartilage, tendons and ligaments.