When we opened his lateral thigh compartment in the operating room, we relieved obvious pressure caused by a large hematoma within the vastus lateralis muscle. The wound was left open initially ...

which allow your leg to bend at the knee and extend straight. Sometimes the fibers in those muscles get overstretched or ripped, causing a pulled or torn hamstring, says Jerome Enad, MD ...

E - elevate. Try to keep your pulled muscle elevated - in a sling or lying on the sofa with your leg on lots of pillows, for example. Problems with pulled muscles tend to arise when we leave ...

Leg pain may occur due to trauma, or an underlying condition. Treatment ... massaging the muscle may help. To relieve the pain when cramps occur, a person can hold the toe and pull it up toward ...