Can muscles break like bones do?
Moment Of Um
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🗓️ 24 September 2024
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever had the unfortunate experience of breaking a bone, it’s not the most fun. But can muscles break in the same way bones can? One listener was wondering about this, and physical therapist Karen Litzy helps us get a leg up on the issue.
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| 0:00.0 | From the brains behind brains on, this is the moment of um. |
| 0:03.2 | Um, um, um, um, um. |
| 0:08.4 | Moment of um comes to you from 8.m. studios. |
| 0:10.5 | I'm Anna Wegal. |
| 0:11.5 | Um. When I was in second grade, I was at recess and we were playing Red Rover. |
| 0:18.0 | Do kids play Red Rover anymore? |
| 0:20.0 | Hold on, let me check. Okay, it looks like, wow, red rubber dates back to the 1930s. |
| 0:30.4 | And there are variants of the game that stretch all the way back into the 1800s. |
| 0:34.0 | Okay, I'm not that old. But in case you haven't played it, it goes like this. |
| 0:37.5 | Two lines of kids form facing each other. |
| 0:40.0 | They link hands and then you say, |
| 0:42.0 | Red Rover, Red red rover send blank on over and then a kid |
| 0:46.7 | breaks out of their line and they run as fast as they can to the other line and |
| 0:49.9 | try to break through a pair of hands. It's actually very dangerous and we probably |
| 0:54.6 | shouldn't have been playing it because one time when it was my turn to break through |
| 0:57.8 | the hands I ran very aggressively and fell and broke my ankle. I was in a cast and I had to miss a lot of |
| 1:05.7 | swim meets and practices and it was a rough time for me. Lots of people break a bone |
| 1:09.9 | at some point in their life. Others have sprained bones or pulled muscles, but can muscles |
| 1:14.3 | break in the same way bones can? Listen to Lyrin was wondering this. |
| 1:18.6 | Hi, I'm Dr. Karen Litzi, a physical therapist based in New York City, and the question is, |
| 1:30.0 | can muscles break like bones? |
| 1:33.4 | Well, the answer is not really. |
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