{"id":3569,"date":"2019-08-05T11:45:03","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/2019\/08\/05\/what-you-should-know-about-pulled-muscles\/"},"modified":"2019-08-05T11:45:05","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:45:05","slug":"what-you-should-know-about-pulled-muscles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/2019\/08\/05\/what-you-should-know-about-pulled-muscles\/","title":{"rendered":"What You Should Know About Pulled Muscles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-815 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pulled-muscle-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>At one point or another, everyone has had a pulled muscle. It happens any time you stretch a muscle in your body too far, or stretch it to the point that the muscle tissue begins to tear.\u00a0You can get a pulled muscle anywhere. They occur most often in your back, shoulders, hamstrings, neck, or shoulders.<\/p>\n<p>You\u2019ll know it when you get one, because the pain will be sudden and extreme, and will probably limit movement within the affected muscle group.\u00a0 Those, however, aren\u2019t the only symptoms.\u00a0 Others include things like bruising or discoloration, swelling, muscle spasms, stiffness, or a sudden weakness in the affected muscle group.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The most common causes of these types of injuries include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Overexertion<\/li>\n<li>Fatigue<\/li>\n<li>Poor physical condition mixed with a sudden burst of physical activity<\/li>\n<li>Poor flexibility<\/li>\n<li>Failing to warm up properly before starting a physical activity<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>You can also suffer a muscle strain if you slip or lose your footing, lift something while you\u2019re in an awkward position, throw something, or do anything involving running and jumping.\u00a0 Pulled muscles tend to be more common in colder weather because the muscles in your body are stiffer and it takes more time to warm up properly.<\/p>\n<p>In the vast majority of cases, you can treat a pulled muscle on your own with a combination of ice, compression, elevation and simple rest.\u00a0 There are times, however, when you\u2019ll absolutely want to seek the help of a medical professional.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Those conditions include:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If the muscle pain is accompanied by any amount of blood coming from the injury.<\/li>\n<li>It\u2019s severe enough that you can\u2019t walk or have difficulty even moving the affected part of your body.<\/li>\n<li>The injured area goes completely numb.<\/li>\n<li>Or if the pain doesn\u2019t subside after a week.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Don\u2019t take any chances.\u00a0 If you have any doubts, questions or concerns at all, it always pays to seek the help and advice of a professional.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-815 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/pulled-muscle-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>At one point or another, everyone has had a pulled muscle. It happens any time you stretch a muscle in your body too far, or stretch it to the point &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3569"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3571,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3569\/revisions\/3571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}