After the calf is strained, the severity is mainly judged by the patient’s symptoms, physical examination and relevant auxiliary examinations.
1. Symptoms: There is no obvious limitation of activity in the calf, only mild pain and swelling is mild, and it can be gradually recovered after rest. For those with severe pain, obvious swelling and limitation of movement, it is more serious.
2. Physical examination: For those who have mild calf muscle strains, the affected area is not bruised, swollen and painful, or only mild swelling and pain, which is mild. Patients with obvious bruising or palpation with obvious swelling and pain, especially when pressed with obvious depression, indicating that there may be muscle, tendon rupture, belong to the more serious degree.
3. Auxiliary examination: the more common for the nuclear magnetic resonance examination, through the examination can be found at the site of the strain of the detailed situation, only the existence of mild edema of the affected area is mild, and there are obvious tearing is serious, rupture is the most serious.
It is recommended to go to the hospital in time to improve the auxiliary examination in order to clarify the condition.