What Happens When You Pull a Muscle?
Curiosity Weekly
Warner Bros. Discovery
4.6 • 964 Ratings
🗓️ 1 October 2020
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Learn about what your muscles go through when they get pulled, whether trees have heartbeats, and the real science behind the recovering alcoholics’ mantra “one day at a time.”
What Happens When You Pull a Muscle? by Ashley Hamer
- Pietrangelo, A. (2019). Muscle Strains. Healthline; Healthline Media. https://www.healthline.com/health/strains#treatment4
- Lee, S. (2016, February 17). What to Do When You Pull a Muscle From Working Out. Vitals; Vitals. https://vitals.lifehacker.com/what-to-do-when-you-pull-a-muscle-from-working-out-1759172514
Trees May Have a “Heartbeat” by Reuben Westmaas
- Original episode: https://www.curiositydaily.com/tree-heartbeats-morse-code-silurian-hypothesis-anc/
Neuroscience backs up the recovering alcoholic's mantra "one day at a time" by Steffie Drucker
- Why “one day at a time” works for recovering alcoholics. (2020). EurekAlert! https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/yu-wd082720.php
- Blaine, S. K., Wemm, S., Fogelman, N., Lacadie, C., Seo, D., Scheinost, D., & Sinha, R. (2020). Association of Prefrontal-Striatal Functional Pathology With Alcohol Abstinence Days at Treatment Initiation and Heavy Drinking After Treatment Initiation. American Journal of Psychiatry. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ajp.2020.19070703
- Alcohol Facts and Statistics. (2019, April 25). National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAAA). https://www.niaaa.nih.gov/publications/brochures-and-fact-sheets/alcohol-facts-and-statistics
- Alcohol Abuse Differ From Alcoholism. (2019, October 30). Swift River Rehab Center. https://www.swiftriver.com/blog/alcohol-abuse-vs-alcoholism/
- One day at a Time in Recovery -. (2019, April 5). Alcoholrehab.Com. https://alcoholrehab.com/addiction-recovery/one-day-at-a-time-in-recovery/
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, you're about to get smarter in just a few minutes with Curiosity Daily from Curiosity.com. |
| 0:06.4 | I'm Ashley Hamer. |
| 0:07.5 | And I'm Natalia Reagan. |
| 0:08.7 | Today you learn about what happens when you pull a muscle, whether trees have heartbeats, |
| 0:12.8 | and the real science behind the recovering alcoholics mantra, |
| 0:16.0 | one day at a time. |
| 0:17.2 | Let's satisfy some curiosity. |
| 0:19.8 | Look, we all know what a pulled muscle feels like. |
| 0:22.4 | Maybe you try to do work out on YouTube, |
| 0:24.0 | or help your friend move a couch, or you put on a shirt wrong. |
| 0:28.0 | True story. |
| 0:29.0 | Then all of a sudden you feel a sharp pain in that muscle, |
| 0:32.0 | and you're down for the count. |
| 0:34.4 | But what is pulling a muscle? |
| 0:36.9 | What the heck happens to make it hurt so much? |
| 0:39.6 | To understand what happens when you pull a muscle, you first have to understand muscle tissue |
| 0:43.4 | itself you have three types of muscles cardiac visceral and skeletal |
| 0:48.1 | cardiac and visceral muscles are the ones that keep your body's processes running |
| 0:52.2 | smoothly like circulation and |
| 0:53.7 | digestion. Skeletal muscle is the only type you can control and generally the only |
| 0:58.0 | type you can injure. Skeletal muscles attach to tendons at each end and each of those attaches to a bone. |
| 1:04.8 | All muscles are made up of thousands to millions of tiny muscle fibers that contract by |
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