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Avoid these pesky injuries and keep your body in tip-top shape
Diving headlong into your favourite summer activity, especially after being inactive for a long time and without doing a proper warm-up, can lead to muscle strain – an injury to a muscle or its attaching tendons (a sprain is an injury to ligaments).
Symptoms of muscle strain injury include pain when the specific muscle is used, pain at rest, weakness of the muscle or tendons or an inability to use the muscle at all.
Typical causes of muscle strain include:
To help prevent muscle strain:
Originally published in Wellness Matters, Canada Wide Media’s quarterly newsletter on health and wellness.