How can I treat a muscle strain?
Muscle strain is like a paper cut inside the muscle; that tear in the muscle can create a lot of pain. In this video, physical therapist Peggy Brill explains how an ingredient in emu oil works to promote healing and pain relief by reducing swelling.
Transcript
So one of the things that we talk about is applying of ointments. And we love this EMU oil.
Emulate is the one that I like to use, which is called arthritis and muscular rub.
The arthritis and muscular cure rub, Emulate, that you put on that area-- and if you can't reach, you can use a spoon
and rub it onto your own back. [MUSIC PLAYING]
Well, muscle strain is like a paper cut in inside the muscle. And what happens is, the muscle has gone beyond its capacity,
or it was stiff, or it was dehydrated, and it tears. It literally tears. And that can create so much achiness and pain
with any kind of stretch or any kind of shortening, that you don't have the strength in that muscle. So one of the things that we talk about
is applying of ointments. And we love this EMU oil. Emulate is the one that I like to use,
which is called arthritis and muscular rub. The arthritis and muscular cure rub, Emulate,
that you put on that area-- and if you can't reach, you can use a spoon and rub it onto your own back. It has high concentrations of linoleic acid.
And linoleic acid promotes healing by reducing pain and the swelling.
[AUDIO LOGO] [MUSIC PLAYING]
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