Alin75's advice column

14/f
Okay so I pulled a muscle in my upper right leg, like were my butt cheek is.I am a cheerleader an it us very hard to do what I do with a pulled muscle. are there any ways at all that could help heal it within like 3 days? It has been pulled for about 2 or 3 weeks though. Help please!!!!

If the muscle has not healed (or virtually healed) there is unfortunately nothing you can do. Moreover, even if it is almost healed, I still would not use it in three days. Thats a lesson I learned the hard way... straining a pulled muscle before it is 100% healed most often just puts you right back to square one. And the problem is, pulled muscles often give no warning... one minute they are ok-ish, the next you only have one working leg.

Here is an article that mentions some things you can do for these kinds of injuries (before and after):

http://orthopedics.about.com/od/sprainstraintreatment/ht/muscle.htm

But again... its nothing that will work in 3 days.

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(Rating: 5) thank you! at least its not me that it switches from being fine to not being fine at all! :)

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