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New Protocol for Muscle Injury Treatment

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The most common pathology in sports is muscle injury. There are several reasons to establish a new Protocol for the treatment of muscle injuries: there is no such thing as a single criterion that says how and when treatments or certain patterns of treatment need to be applied; there are several classifications of nonhomogeneous muscle injuries [13] with a great variety of interobserver; patterns of treatment have been based on individual medical experience rather than scientific homogeneous reproducible criteria. As a consequence, functional results have proven diverse, unpredictable, and unforeseeable. Goal is to elaborate a Protocol to reconcile and combine the therapeutical process by applying actual knowledge on biophysiology which will eventually set up a plan of treatment based on temporary biological criteria of muscle repair.

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Carlos Revilla, MD. Clínica CEMTRO, Madrid, Spain.

Prof. Pedro Cuevas. Hospital Ramon y Cajal, Madrid, Spain.

Antonio Manquillo, MD. Clínica CEMTRO, Madrid, Spain.

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  1. Servicio de Medicina y Traumatología del Deporte, Clínica CEMTRO, C/ Ventisquero de la Condesa #42, 28035, Madrid, Spain

    Tomás F. Fernandez Jaén

  2. Cátedra Traumatología del Deporte, Universidad Católica, Murcia, Spain

    Tomás F. Fernandez Jaén

  3. Servicio de Traumatología y Cirugía Ortopédica, Clínica CEMTRO, Madrid, Spain

    Pedro Guillén García

  4. Catedrático de Traumatología del Deporte, Universidad Católica, Murcia, Spain

    Pedro Guillén García

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Jaén, T.F.F., García, P.G. (2012). New Protocol for Muscle Injury Treatment. In: Doral, M. (eds) Sports Injuries. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15630-4_114

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