Whether you call it muscle strain, muscle spasm or a pulled muscle – it’s a frustrating injury to suffer from.
It doesn’t matter whether you’re training for a long distance run, walking the dog, decorating your house or trying to push a pram uphill. Muscle strain makes you feel old and, frankly, a bit useless.
If your muscles are tight, fatigued or weak (e.g. if you return to activity too soon after an injury), muscle strain is more likely. Injuries to the muscles can occur in all areas of the body and can vary in severity from the tearing of only a few fibres to a complete muscle tear which severely limits your strength and movement.
“Muscle strains are often associated with sports/activity injury, but they can occur when we are simply doing normal daily things. Our aim is not just to treat it but prevent the symptoms from reoccurring.”Jay Sheridan, Sports Therapist
Our osteopaths or sports therapy team will focus on reducing the pain associated with muscle strains, promoting healing either with hands-on treamtent, ultra sound or KLASER treatment. This could speed up your recovery time.
We’ll also give you simple things to do that you can incorporate into your normal day rather than a list of exercises you don’t have time to do.
And we will look at other structures in the area to see what additional damage you may have done! After all, the muscle is attached to the tendon, which is attached to the joints, which is held together by ligaments. So, chances are you’ve not just damaged one area.
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