A significant muscle strain can result in acute and chronic complications.
Acute complications of significant muscle strain:
(1) hematoma
(2) muscle rupture
(3) acute compartment syndrome
Late complications of significant muscle strain:
(1) risk for reinjury
(2) pseudocyst
(3) myositis ossificans traumatica
(4) fatty infiltration
(5) fibrosis
(6) chronic muscle weakness
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Specialty: Surgery, orthopedic
