How to Treat a Muscle Pull

Video Transcript

"You know throughout the course of everyday life, all of us will experience some type of muscle pull or strain. Hi I'm Captain Joe Bruni. And what we are going to talk about is how to treat the common muscle strain or muscle pull. When a muscle is strained or pulled there's usually damage to the muscle fibers and tissues. One of the common ways to treat that pulled muscle injury is to apply some type of cold pack or ice to reduce swelling and pain. After the application of ice or some type of commercially sold cold pack, this can be applied in short increments of no more then ten to fifteen minutes. In this way, we will not further cause injury or burns to the skin due to the cold. Remove the cold after about ten to fifteen minutes of application allowing the skin and the surface and areas where the muscle is pulled and located to rewarm themselves. For the first few days, continue to apply ice to that pulled muscle area. After a few days wrap the area with some type of bandage, continue to rest and rehabilitate the area and try and attempt to do some stretching exercises providing it does not cause pain. After bandaging the area, after a few days, heat can be applied to increase blood flow to help the healing process and a speedy recovery. I'm Captain Joe Bruni stay safe and we'll see you next time."