How Should I Treat a Strained Muscle?

A muscle strain is an injury caused by a sharp contraction or excessive stretching of a muscle during exercise. This can easily happen during pull-ups and sit-ups. After a muscle strain, the area of the strain is severely painful. You can feel the cord-like hard mass formed by the muscles with your hands. The pain is obvious, the local swelling or subcutaneous bleeding is obvious, and the activity is obviously restricted.

Basic Information

Visiting department

orthopedics

Common locations

muscle

Common causes

Insufficient preparations before exercise, weak constitution, unscientific exercise,

Common symptoms

Severe pain, can feel the cable-like lump formed by muscle tension, obvious tenderness, local swelling or subcutaneous bleeding, obviously restricted movement

Causes of muscle strain

1. Insufficient preparation activities, the physiological functions of muscles have not reached the state required for strenuous activities, participate in strenuous activities.

2. Weak constitution, low level of training, poor muscle extensibility and strength, fatigue or excessive load.

3. Low exercise technique, incorrect posture, excessive force, exceeding the range of muscle activity.

4. The temperature is too low, the humidity is too high, the site is too hard, etc.

5. Muscle strain can occur at the boundary between the muscular abdomen and the muscular abdomen, or it can occur when the tendon is attached to the bone. A strain can be a minor injury or a partial tear in a muscle fiber or even a complete break. Most of the muscle strains are: the back thigh muscle group, the back muscles, the calf triceps, the rectus abdominis, and trapezius.

Common muscle strain

Flexor tendon injury, hand tendon injury, spinous process tenderness.

Muscle strain check

Muscle resistance test is a simple method to check muscle strain. The method is that the patient performs an active contraction of the injured muscle, and the examiner exerts a certain resistance on the activity, and the part where the pain occurs during the confrontation process is the injury of the injured muscle.

Differential diagnosis of muscle strain

Muscle injury

Muscle cells are slender and fibrous, so muscle cells are often called muscle fibers. Muscle smashing is when an object is crushed to damage the muscle.

2. Muscle contusion

Non-open injuries occur when a blunt object directly acts on the soft tissues of the body.

3. Muscle tear

A muscle strain is an injury caused by a sharp contraction or excessive stretching of a muscle during exercise. This can easily happen during long cymbals, pull-ups, and sit-ups. After a muscle strain, the area of the strain is severely painful. You can feel the cord-like hard mass formed by the muscles with your hands. The pain is obvious, the local swelling or subcutaneous bleeding is obvious, and the activity is obviously restricted.

Muscle strain treatment principles

After a muscle strain, immediately apply a cold compress, rinse the area with cold water or wrap the ice with a towel, and then apply a suitable bandage to the wound to prevent swelling. After 24 hours to 48 hours, remove the bandages, you can apply blood to the outside and reduce swelling. You can apply hot compresses or lightly massage the injured area.

If there is a small amount of muscle fiber breaks in the thigh muscles, a cold compress, local compression bandaging should be given immediately, and the affected limb, most of the muscles or the complete rupture should be raised, and immediately sent to the hospital for surgical suture after compression bandaging.