Question 1

could you pull a muscle in your ribcage?

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Yes: This is not uncommon to pull the intercostal muscles between the ribs.  Healing is like other muscle pulls but due to continual breathing the healing period may be longer due to continuous "tweaking' of the pulled muscle and if you don't breath deeply, pneumonias can theorectically develop.

Question 2

could you tell me what happens when you pull a muscle?

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A Strain: Or a pulled muscle is tears within muscle fibers caused by muscle that is stretched too far.

Question 3

can you pull a muscle in your finger?

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Not likely.  : The fingers themselves don't have muscles inside them. They do have tendons, bones, ligaments, blood vessels and nerves.  The muscles that control the fingers are in the forearm and palm.  If you have soreness in the finger itself it could be do ligament injury, fracture, or tendon injury.

Question 4

can you pull a muscle from vomiting?

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Musles & Vomiting: Vomiting is the body's way of trying to get rid of a noxious substance in your stomach. The effect of the toxic substance getting into your blood stream is to trigger a center in the brain that sends the signal to your stomach to vomit, which is felt as nausea. The actual vomiting requires forceful contraction of the anterior abdominal muscles and the diaphragm, either of which can be sprained.

Question 5

can you pull a muscle in your armpit?

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YES: Yes. Have a doctor check though.

Question 6

can you pull a muscle from hving a charley horse?

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Yes: A charley horse is an involuntary muscle contraction which is prolonged. If the spasm is strong enough and starts abruptly enough, tendons can be damaged, stretched and possibly torn.

Question 7

could you pull a muscle in your scrotom thag leads to testical pain? just happened all of a sidden today and i have mild pain

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Dr. to examine area: Testicle pain generally means a trip to the doctor right away because the testicle's blood supply can be twisted off (called torsion). What if only slight aches? That could be some other, non-urgent problem such as excessive pulling on the cord to the testis. One's primary care doctor can examine, because the details matter, such as where is the discomfort, how did it begin, how bad is it, etc...

Question 8

could you pull a muscle in your lower abdomen?

Accepted Answer

Yes: It is possible to strain your abdominal muscles.

Question 9

can you pull a muscle in your back i was doin somethin then after i did what i did my lower back & sides started hurting now i think its my kidneys?

Accepted Answer

Back pain occurs.: It is very hard to strain the kidneys by moving and muscle strain is much more common.
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Question 10

can you pull a muscle in your belly button?

Accepted Answer

: Not in, but around. Circumstances and features of the pain gave to be discussed and an exam needed in order to pinpoint the source for the pain.

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