I pulled a muscle and need help

[harry lincon]

I pulled a bicep muscle doing incline hammer curls and I need some help here on how to recover, pain is extreme and to get a doc's appointment it takes likes 5 days to get under my insurance my emergency room copay is huge. So I have a few questions about it: how do I protect the pulled muscle area, how long do I have to rest before getting back to the gym and if I should apply ice everyday or ice is good only right after the injury, thank you guys.

 

[muskate]

I am sorry to hear about your injury brother.

I would not do any exercise that involves biceps until you get your bicep professionally checked out. You can make a small injury a very serious one by not getting an injury properly checked out.

Start mega dosing fish oil to bring the inflammation in the area down. I would use a dosage of around 10g/day.

Using a good joint supplement like n2joint rx from n2bm.com would also be a really smart idea to help your injury start to heal and reduce pain.

 

[stevesmi]

depends on how bad the tear is.

it can simply need a week rest for a small tear or it could require surgery for a large tear.

make sure you are going to a GOOD DOCTOR, not a retarded general practioner who doesn't know the difference between the bicep and tricep

 

[MasonicBodybuilder]

I would just rest it completely until you go to the doctor.

 

[Jay Scott]

Fully rest and apply warm compression until you manage to see the doc.

The warm compression will speed up the healing process in the inflammed area.