You can also help to heal faster through self cross friction massage. Using a moisturizer to help your hands glide across your skin massage at a 90 degree angle to the way the muscle runs. In other words, massage your muscle from side to side instead of up and down the leg. This will help to decrease the amount of scar tissue that forms as the muscle tears heal.
Once the pain begins to decrease begin to incorporate stretches into your daily routine to help the muscles to stretch as they heal. This stretching will also help decrease the adhesions or scars that form as the muscle heals. This will also help increase the range of motion in those muscles to decrease the probability that this injury will happen again.