Group: Injuries & Rehabilitation

Injuries & Rehabilitation
Created: 2012/01/01, Members: 54, Messages: 4465

Dealing with injuries and learning how to avoid them is extremely important!

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Strained Lower Arm Muscle

hamadryad
hamadryad
Posts: 31
Joined: 2001/12/27
Canada
2002/02/04, 03:39 AM
After a wrestling match with my coach today I seem to have strained a muscle. I got a raised lump the size of my palm (about half a cm raised) below the inside of my elbow. I started stretching it right away to try to get it away and prevent my muscle from knotting and I've been using liniment on it and massaging it intermittently for the past 6 hours. Am I doing the right thing?
ltroisi
ltroisi
Posts: 764
Joined: 2001/11/06
United States
2002/02/04, 07:01 AM
Ice, very cold 5 3-5 times a day. Best if used immediately at point of injury.
Philia2
Philia2
Posts: 4,078
Joined: 2001/10/19
France
2002/02/04, 08:56 AM
Don't massage it!! You can just make it worse.
As ltroisi says put some ice on it, get some rest and then see how it goes.