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What did I do to my quad?

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Sukhoi

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I play kickball and softball weekly. Around two months ago I strained my right quad running to first base in a kickball game. It was hard to walk the rest of the evening, but after massaging my leg a lot with a rolling pin (it worked!) it didn't feel too bad the next day. The strain was just a big general soreness in the middle of my quad with no stinging pain in one area.

Since then the strain has lingered, sometimes better and sometimes worse. I thought it was gone when I ran full-out without pain in my softball game on Tuesday, but then I felt it starting to hurt after the game.

I tried to roll it out a bit with the rolling pin, but when I got to this one point on the front of my quad mid-way down and slightly on the inside, it started hurting extremely badly. I couldn't bend my leg past half-way, and any movement of my leg that tightened my quad hurt just as bad. Keeping my leg straight didn't hurt so I just went to bed and when I got up it was back in the normal semi-strained state.

Then last night I thought I'd roll it out again to help heal, but it did the same thing with the extreme pain in that one location. It wasn't quite as bad as Tuesday when I thought I had torn my quad in half, but it was definitely the same issue. What's going on? I feel silly at the idea of going to a doctor for a simple muscle problem.
 
It sounds like you just pushed it a bit hard the first time and maybe made the muscle tense up quite a bit more than usual. Rolling it the first time worked because of that. However because you don't really do anything else (or if you do, correct me here), healing was slow. You didn't use it and therefore it didn't get as much blood flow and didn't recover. When you ran all-out the next time, you probably actually strained it or hurt tendons of some sort. That cannot be rolled out and that's why it hasn't helped.

What you need to do is some good old fashioned physical therapy. Some exercises you can do: leg extensions while sitting in a chair, scooting your heel (from fully extended) to your butt (will help to stretch the quad), and even walking up stairs will help if your leg can take it. Don't use it all-out again until you've done these exercises for a bit because you WILL injure it again. During the exercises, the most pain you should accept is a dull throb. If it gets worse than that, cut it out and find a similar but less intense exercise to do.
 
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