How to Prevent and Treat Fibrillation Breaks
Written by:A fibrillar rupture is an injury to the fibers that make up skeletal muscle; Consists of a loss of continuity (rupture) in a greater or lesser degree of the fibers.
Its main cause is an excessive tension that in a given moment, and due to different factors, causes the rupture.
Prevention of fibrillar rupture
The best form of prevention is to have strong muscles and at the same time elastic, in addition to performing progressive exercises to have the muscles ready for the solicitation to which we are going to submit.
Diagnosis of fibrillar rupture
The diagnosis is made under the suspicion of the injury when there is a jerk or acute muscle pain that, generally, causes limitation of the function of the affected muscle.
Today we are fortunate to confirm the injury and estimate the severity thanks to ultrasound and / or magnetic resonance imaging.
Treatment of fibrillar rupture
Currently, if there is a large hematoma due to a significant rupture we can perform evacuation of the same in an echo-guided way.
Obviously, we must protect the muscle from stress similar to the cause of the injury over a period of 2 to 6 weeks.
Early physical therapy is essential. In our protocol of treatment we mainly use tecarterapia and manual therapy.
Fibrillar rupture recovery
The most important thing is to avoid a relapse. Proper physiotherapy and a correct rehabilitation plan are the guarantee of good results.
The essential thing is to decide what can and can not do the athlete in each moment of recovery.
For more information consult the traumatologist .
