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Musculoskeletal strain
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- Stretching or partial tearing of muscle fibers causing pain and swelling.
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- Pain and ache in the affected muscle
- There may be an immediate onset of
symptoms, or onset 1-2 days after theinjury .
- Usually the pain and ache are markedly less after 7-10 days, or have resolved.
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- Injury
- Overuse of a muscle
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- This is a diagnosis of exclusion (i.e., process of elimination), involving localized muscle pain, with compatible history, that resolves in short order.
- Muscle pain with normal X-rays
- Absence of positive neurologic findings: no sensory losses; no significant long-lasting motor losses (muscle strength, bulk, tone are close to normal); deep tendon reflexes unchanged from previously.
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- More likely to occur in teenage years rather than in pre-teens
- Heavy lifting or repetitive lifting
- Lifting while twisting the body rather than facing the lifted object squarely
- Vigorous sports
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- A few days of rest, while relieving tension on the affected part
- Ice or heat is sometimes recommended
- Anti-inflammatory medication, if the person is not sensitive to it
- Physical therapy
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- A non-remitting pain in the recovery period is unusual for muscle strain.
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- Discuss with your physician, if resolution does not occur in short order.
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- Disease of muscle or of nerve
- Most of the serious diseases causing this kind of pain will have pain that is more severe and longer lasting.
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