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How Can I Treat a Muscle Strain?

How Can I Treat a Muscle Strain? (0:52)

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.

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For muscles strain is like a paper cut inside the muscle, and what happens is the muscles gone beyond it's capacity or is stiff or is dehydrated and tears, 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 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