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.
Considerations. Although vitamin A may help you speed the healing of wounds, particularly if you are taking corticosteroids, you should still talk to your doctor before taking vitamin A supplements. The effects of vitamin A in human wound healing is still being studied.