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The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains

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SJun '22The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — More information, imaging section — Added an additional reason for imaging: some “strains” turn out to be stress fractures.
SMay '22The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Science update, muscle balance chapter — Cited Guan, a good review of all inter-limb asymmetry evidence.
SMar '22The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Minor update — Added neuropathy as a risk factor for strain.
MMar '22The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Added sub-topic — Discussed the potential value of neural mobilization in strain rehab.
MDec '21The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Upgraded, water and electrolytes chapter — Added much more information about magnesium: cramping, supplementation, and dietary sources. Also beefed up the warning about excessive hydration and its effect on electrolytes (hyponatremia).
SDec '21The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — More information, epsom salts — Added information about the role of magnesium.
MDec '21The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Upgraded, spasm chapter — More and clearer information. A new citation to some basic spasm science.
M2021The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Correction — I misinterpreted a study of the relationship between range of motion and recovery time. While the general principle was sound — greater ROM loss correlates strongly with recovery time) — my more specific “rule of thumb” based on it was a bit wonky. So I fixed that.
L2021The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — More info, strength chapter — More detailed information and advice about training for “muscle balance” between the quads and hamstrings.
L2020The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New chapter, injury warning signs.
L2020The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Major upgrade — Added a bunch of new information about conventional risk factors.
M2020The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Improvements — Science updates, updated side effect information, and just generally more detail.
L2020The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Major revision, spasm section — Information about spasms and cramps is now more detailed and nuanced. Some significant modernization was needed.
M2020The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Upgrade, diagnosis — Clarification what different combinations of strength and pain might mean.
L2020The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Upgraded — Major improvements and clarifications, inspired by some good scholarly debate about the classification of muscle injuries. A formal classification of some muscle injuries as “functional” is an interesting and useful way to introduce the subtopic of trigger points, and to put it in the context of a book about structural muscle injury.
M2020The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Science update, definition of strain — Added a good new citation about the definition/classification of strain, clarified the unclear nature of “strain,” and introduced the idea of other kinds of muscle injury.
S2020The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Science update — Added a citation about the safety of BFR training (it’s not entirely safe, turns out).
S2020The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Science update — Added some information about the potential harms of platelet-rich plasma injection.
L2020The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New chapter, diagnostic ultrasound.
L2019The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New section, about pathological vulnerability to strains.
S2019The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Editing, muscle flossing chapter — Polish, some more details, and better integration into the book.
S2019The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Editing, strength chapter — Polish, some more details, and better integration into the book.
L2019The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Major enhancement, strength training section — Added an extremely useful evidence-based strength training recommendation. This is as good as any update gets!
L2019The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Like new, blood flow restriction training — Substantial expansion of my coverage of this topic.
L2018The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New section, Electric exercise: electrical muscle stimulation (EMS)
L2018The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New section, laser therapy.
S2018The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Science update, platelet-rich plasma section — Added a highly relevant citation to Grassi et al.
M2018The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Cleanup, preventing re-injury — No new science, but a bunch of clarifications and editorial improvements. It’s a clearer and more useful section.
M2018The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New tips, healing time section — Added two evidence-based tips to help estimate how long a strain takes to heal.
M2017The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Expanded — Added some substance, mainly citing and discussing Ramos et al on the lack of evidence for common treatments. It’s still a short introduction to the second half to the book , but not as absurdly brief as it was.
S2017The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Improvements — Added more information about swelling and muscle deformation.
M2017The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Science update — Added a very interesting good-news reference that actually provides some decent support for massaging strains.
M2016The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Expanded — New evidence-based prevention risks and tips.
S2015The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Minor science update — Citation of Collins 2008 and Bleakley 2012, reviewing icing evidence (or the lack of it), and a few related edits.
M2015The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Expanded — Added discussion of surprising data about rates of reinjury.
M2015The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Expanded — More than doubled the size of the section with an interesting addition: “Rupture: not as obvious as you’d think!”
L2014The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Like new — New, but shorter: just a topic summary now, linking to a main, free article.
S2014The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Science update — More perspective and detailed information on stretching for recovery.
S2013The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Science update — A (slightly) good news science update about the effect of stretching on recovery.
S2013The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Minor update — Added a couple paragraphs about exactly where in a muscle strains tend to occur, and why.
L2013The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Major update — Much more detailed and evidence-based tips for estimating recovery time.
S2013The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Minor update — Upgraded risk and safety information about Voltaren Gel.
L2012The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New section.
M2011The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Update — Rewritten and expanded with important evidence about how stretching does not prevent strain injuries.
S2011The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Minor update — Added a (very) funny clip from the TV show Glee.
L2011The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Major update — Major improvements to the table of contents, and the display of information about updates like this one. Sections now have numbers for easier reference and bookmarking. The structure of the document has really been cleaned up in general, making it significantly easier for me to update the tutorial — which will translate into more good content for readers. Care for more detail? Really? Here’s the full announcement.
S2011The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New artwork — Added a nice new diagram of strain severity.
L2011The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New section.
L2011The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New section — Some useful new information about how to estimate healing time more accurately.
L2010The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New section — Another new section and yet more good new evidence about prevention.
L2010The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New section — New section based on solid new evidence about prevention.
S2010The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New cover — At last! E-book finally has a “cover.”
L2010The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — New section.
L2009The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Added a and included Voltaren® Gel, an excellent treatment option for muscle strain that only recently got into my radar. You can read about Voltaren in a free article as well as here in the tutorial, but the tutorial covers the topic specifically as it relates to muscle strain.
L2009The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Added about a new treatment for muscle strains, a drug called “suramin,” that may be slightly miraculous.
L2009The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — The visual design of the site was upgraded over the past several days. Although this is not an update to the content of this tutorial, it is nevertheless a significant upgrade for all of them — like publishing new editions of books with better typesetting and layout. The new design is even cleaner and reader-friendly; it now looks that good in most web browsers; and pages load as much as 50% faster. Many under-the-hood improvements will make it much easier for me to improve tutorial content. The tutorials are now well-oiled machines of digital publishing goodness.
L2009The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — Added a small new section about Traumeel, a popular but questionable remedy that I often get asked about. See the section, “,” or the free article, Does Arnica Gel Work for Pain?.
L2008The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — It’s been a long time since the last update to this tutorial! It doesn’t get much love, because muscle strain is actually pretty straightforward compared to the other subjects I write about. Most of the complexity of treating muscle strain concerns its interactions with trigger points, and that is what this update is about! I recently published a (free) article about a serious shoulder injury I suffered (not a strain, but same difference) which became even more seriously complicated by the formation of trigger points. I’ve integrated some of these ideas, and a nice new graph, into the muscle strain tutorial in the section, “”. You can also read the story of my own injury, Muscle Pain as an Injury Complication: The story of how I finally “miraculously” recovered from the pain of a serious shoulder injury, long after the injury itself had healed.
M2007The Complete Guide to Muscle Strains — This tutorial has been around for quite a while (2 or 3 years I think), but I just started tracking changes! I made a bunch of improvements to the introductory sections so that it’s clearer who the tutorial is for. Also beefed up descriptions of conditions that get mistaken for muscle strain.

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