Can you pull a ligament

Answer 1

Yes. As your pregnancy goes on there is more and more weight that has to be supported by the ligaments in your abdomen and legs. As your belly expands, there is added pressure on these ligaments and some women have extreme discomfort, cramping and sharp pains because the supporting ligaments are stretching and pulling. The good news is after you deliver they will go back to the normal size. Speak to your doctor about ways you can minimize the discomfort if it is unbearable pain.

Answer 2

The question appears to need some background in order to provide a clear answer. Hopefully this will help the questioner toward a better understanding of words used in casual conversation and words used to convey very precise meanings in medical and scientific terms. As a master personal trainer and as a college Instructor in bio science courses I go back and forth all the time between big scientific words/terms/concepts and regular little words with my personal training clients and science students. Definition: A ligament is a type of connective tissue that connects a bone to another bone. And a tendon connects a muscle to a bone (in most cases) Example: An outside knee ligament that connects the upper leg bone (femur) to a lower leg bone (tibia). Note that pulls or tears involving tendons and muscles are called strains, and they are classified the same way as sprains - see the next paragraph A "pull" is a layman's term for a tear. Tears in ligaments are called sprains and they are catagorized by degrees that indicate severity: 1st degree, a mild tear; 2nd degree, more severe; and 3rd degree usually indicates a very severe sprain or complete tear or separation of the ligament from a bone. Ligaments are "pulled" when a joint is forced to move in a way that it is not designed to: The knee moves in a front to back manner, like a hinge. If it is made to move any other way or way beyond its normal manner (range of motion), the ligamnets will pull or tear if they cannot stay within their design limits (range of motion again). Example: A person is hit by an opposing player or a car from the side near the level of the knee - the knee is not made to move from side to side. the resulting injury is called a medial collateral ligament sprain. Actually, an interior ligament, the anterieor cruciate ligament is usually affected too, as is the cartilage between the ends of the bones that make up the knee joint. We know this popularly as an "ACL". Another name for this injury is the Terrible Triad because it affects three diffrent types of body tissue. Shoulders can move in all directions - within limits. If those limits are exceeded, connective tissue (tendons and ligaments) and even muscle will tear. Resulting injuries can range from mild rotator cuff injuries to complete connective tissue and muscle sprains and and strains of the several joint structures making up the "shoulder". Hope this explanation helps.