Massaging, rest, and warm compress are basic remedies for a muscle pull.
Heating oil (ex. coconut oil) and mustard is a basic solution but any massage oil is applicable to your muscle pull. Smoothly rub your pulled muscle up to 10 minutes. Assure that you stimulate it and but slowly, because overcoming your muscle will just regress the natural healing process. Do it up to 3 times daily also complement massage therapy with warm compress. You can apply a hot water container up to 20 minutes at your leisure throughout the day. Both therapies will assuage pain and expedite the organic healing process of the muscle.
Don’t underestimate the importance of rest and minimize use a muscle pull. If applicable bed rest is essential whenever possible. Exhausting a muscle pull will further aggravate pain and hardship. The conventional RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation) technique is immediate treatment for a pulled muscle and it should be administered cautiously.
If these basic remedies for a minor muscle pull doesn’t diminish pain and improve inflexibility after 3 days, then immediately visit an orthopedist or sports medicine physician. Because you must be examined for a Grade 2 or 3 muscle strain.
Grades of muscle strain
- a Grade 1 muscle strain is a minimal tear of muscle fibers
- a Grade 2 is a moderate muscle strain with significant tear of muscle fibers. Pain is evident with this grade of strain
- a Grade 3 is a serious muscle strain with a total rupture of muscle fibers. There will be muscle deformation underneath the skin, because muscle has contracted and detached from its tendon
