Quote (rlebar @ Feb 10 2015 02:59pm)
you don't want to pull a greater stretch on it. When you pull a muscle it gets sore and loses mobility and ROM. When I said stretch I mean keep it loose and try to maintain it's normal ROM.
It shouldn't be stretched in the same manner as if it was healthy
a stretch generally implies putting the tissue through an extended ROM for the purposes of increasing end range. mobilizing a tissue implies taking it through a normal ROM without increasing end range
Quote (Wretch @ Feb 10 2015 07:23pm)
here's a question for you guys since you're all scientists and doctors
would a whey shake help repair a pulled muscle in the same way it helps repair damaged muscle after a workout?
thinking that a whey shake helps repair damaged muscle after a workout is misleading. the free pool of amino acids provides the materials to repair damaged tissue (in general), the whey just makes the pool a little bigger (no different from any other protein source). the materials are always there, you just take the shake to ensure you certainly wont run out (plus one or two AA's may be limiting in terms of psynth so that helps). but yes the same AAs that are synthesized to repair small muscle damage are used to repair large tears.
This post was edited by cloudkicker on Feb 11 2015 07:56am