Injured my left quad tonight....

[bho0351]

Was wondering if anyone can maybe explain the difference between a pull and a tear. This sure doesn't feel like any pulled muscle I've ever experienced.

[spotsanddots]

Pull gonna have a knot or bump that you can feel in the muscle when you rub across it. Bad pull will bruise.

[Matt2006Martin]

Tear ya feel actually RIP and POP and takes much,much longer to heal and pain is mad crazy

[bho0351]

Crap. I felt that and there is a knot.

[texasdeerhunter]

I tore my quad a couple of years ago playing city league softball. To this day, the muscle never healed back together. I have an indention in my quad now, it's like I have a hole in it now lol. Generally a pull will heal with ice, compression, and elevation. Massaging it periodically can help too

[tvc184]

My knowledge of medicine is fairly limited however I had a very bad injury to my left calf muscle back in February. With about 30 pounds of duty gear on I came down on my left foot and I could hear the left calf muscle snap. I could barely move and basically had to hop away on 1 foot. I packed it off and ice and elevate it almost immediately.

Then I did some extensive Google searching for a pulled and torn muscles. From what I believe I discovered, a pulled, torn and strained muscle are all the same thing or are different terminologies for the same kind of injury.

From what I read, the proper medical terminology was a strain. They were a grade 1, grade 2 and grade 3 strain. The grade 2 was up to 90% of the muscle ruptured. I believe that was what I had and within a couple of days about half of my calf turn black. Then the blood ran down in the bottom of my foot and it turn black. How about three times a day I would alternate ice and elevation and rest. Within about two weeks how was walking fairly normal and I continued to improve over the next couple of months. The grade 1 strain also had ruptured (or commonly called torn) tissue however it was not nearly so severe and had a quicker recovery time.

Is this all correct? I don't know but I read it all several medical site. From what I read the terminology of torn or pulled or strained muscle are all the same thing. The only real issue was how much was damaged.

[Rack Ranch]

Any blood (bruising) show up yet? The more it bleeds, the greater the tear. No bruising, and it's probably just strained. Ice Ice Ice

[dustoffer]

Here's my take on it---a pull is a strain of some degree along the long axis of the muscle, but the muscle is still attached and can do its designed job. The other type of injury, the entire muscle is torn across and the origin end is no longer attached to the insertion end, and thus can't do its job. Example: Strain of the bicep--an injury/tear running from shoulder to elbow, can still move and bend but painful. A tear--runs across the muscle from side to side and your upper bicep no longer is attached to the lower bicep and thus can't bend your arm.

Earlier poster had some good medical info--1st, 2d, 3d degree strain, etc.

[Rack Ranch]

A muscle can be torn without complete separation from it's origin. The Tendon is torn at the origin with the presentation you describe. There aren't any muscle fibers at the origin.

Here's my take on it---a pull is a strain of some degree along the long axis of the muscle, but the muscle is still attached and can do its designed job. The other type of injury, the entire muscle is torn across and the origin end is no longer attached to the insertion end, and thus can't do its job. Example: Strain of the bicep--an injury/tear running from shoulder to elbow, can still move and bend but painful. A tear--runs across the muscle from side to side and your upper bicep no longer is attached to the lower bicep and thus can't bend your arm.

Earlier poster had some good medical info--1st, 2d, 3d degree strain, etc.

[bho0351]

After reading here and some more on the great interwebs, it seems I may have just strained it pretty good. There is swelling, but no visible bruising this morning. Time to take it easy. Thanks to all of you for your input. I do appreciate it.