Muscular Injury Approach: Healing Phases, Conservative Treatment and Therapeutic Options
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Lacerations, Muscle, Skeletal/injuries, Wound HealingAbstract
Muscle injury is one of the most frequent pathological processes in athletes. Early diagnosis and proper approach optimizes recovery and minimizes downtime.
The healing process and muscle regeneration consists of a complex cellular and immune response with several phases and multiple biochemical processes involved: inflammatory phase, regeneration phase and remodeling phase.
The treatment of muscle injury should be serial and take into account the biological stage in which healing is found.
Pharmacological treatment of muscle injury is a controversial issue. Current therapeutic options attempt to interfere with the various stages of the healing process, either by stimulating cell regeneration or by inhibiting the formation of fibrosis. Currently either oral drugs or injectables have limited scientific evidence to be applied routinely.
This article aims to describe the phases of muscle healing in detail, to detail the approach and treatment of rehabilitation indicated in each phase and to present the evidence of several therapeutic options. For this, a review of the literature published until July of 2018 was carried out in the main medical databases.
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