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Strain (injury)

Injury due to slight tearing of a muscle or tendon

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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A strain is an acute soft tissue injury that occurs to a muscle. The equivalent injury to a ligament is a sprain. A strain is tearing of some of the muscle fibers. Strains are usually the result of an eccentric contraction, meaning that the muscle is lengthened while it is contracting. The body repairs strains. Treatments can alleviate symptoms.

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“Strain (injury)” enters the record as injury due to slight tearing of a muscle or tendon. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Strain, injury and Injury can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Strain (injury)” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.