How to Recover from a Strained or Pulled Muscle

How to Recover from a Strained or Pulled Muscle

1.How to Recover from a Strained or Pulled Muscle :

Take it easy and rest your strained muscle.

Most muscle pulls occur from either lifting too much weight, doing something too often (repetition), moving awkwardly or experiencing trauma (car accident, sports injury).

If your muscle pull takes longer than a few weeks to recover.

Then either a significant proportion of the muscle fibers are torn or there’s involvement of a related joint and ligaments.

Dull, achy pain is usually indicative of a muscle strain, whereas sharp and/or shooting pain with movement is often caused by joint / ligament sprains.So keep resting if you have high pain.

It is because the vessels of the muscles are damaged.

2.Apply something cold :

• Apply something cold if the muscle injury is acute.
• Cold therapy should be applied for 10-20 minutes every hour (the larger or deeper the affected muscle, the longer the time), then reduce the frequency as the pain and swelling subside.
• Compressing the ice against the muscle can also help to reduce swelling and pain.

3.Apply moist heat :

Apply moist heat if the injury is chronic.

• Alternatively, soak your chronically strained muscle in a warm Epsom salt bath for 20 – 30 minutes because it can significantly reduce pain and swelling in muscles.
• Don’t use dry heat, such as heating pads, on your chronically strained muscles because you risk dehydrating the tissue and making the issue worse.
• Don’t play games like football cricket.Because it can increase pain and swelling and also cause a serious problem.

4. Take anti-inflammatory medicine :

Taking anti-inflammatory medicine can also help you from strained muscle.

it can provide relief & it don’t stimulate healing but with the help of it you can resume your work.

• Don’t use dry heat, such as heating pads.Because it can dehydrate the tissue.
• Use a microwavable heat pack and apply it to your sore muscle(s).

5. Try some light stretching :

• Muscle stretching can also help you to injury prevention strategy.
• If you stretch regularly, then you should not have soreness.
• Apply moist heat to any muscle before you attempt to stretch it.Because muscles are cold when you are relaxed.

6. Go for a deep massage :

7. Get therapeutic ultrasound treatments :

8. Consider muscle stimulation treatments :

9. Consider infrared therapy :