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ReviewNature reviews. Disease primers2023

Traumatic muscle injury.

Pascal Edouard, Gustaaf Reurink, Abigail L Mackey, Richard L Lieber, Tania Pizzari, Tero A H Järvinen, Thomas Gronwald, Karsten Hollander

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Review in Nature reviews. Disease primers, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 44 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
44citing papers in PubMed
16.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

44 citing papers in PubMed, 67 citations in OpenAlex.

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  2. Targeting TGF-β to Attenuate Ischemia-Reperfusion Associated Muscle Fibrosis and Enhance Regeneration: A Preclinical Study.FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology · 2026
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  8. A Smart Headband for Multimodal Physiological Monitoring in Human Exercises.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  17. Therapeutic massage with nanostructured lipid carrier gel containing quercetin for muscle injury treatment in rats.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologicas · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors at 7 institutions in 7 countries.

Pascal EdouardUniversité Jean Monnet, Lyon 1, Université Savoie Mont-Blanc, Inter-university Laboratory of Human Movement Biology, Saint-Etienne, France. pascal.edouard@univ-st-etienne.fr.ORCID 0000-0003-1969-3612
Gustaaf ReurinkDepartment of Orthopedic Surgery and Sports Medicine, Academic Medical Center, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam Movement Sciences, Amsterdam, Netherlands.
Abigail L MackeyInstitute of Sports Medicine Copenhagen, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery M, Bispebjerg Hospital, Copenhagen, Denmark.ORCID 0000-0002-2017-4580
Richard L LieberShirley Ryan AbilityLab, Chicago, IL, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7203-4520
Tania PizzariLa Trobe Sport and Exercise Medicine Research Centre, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
Tero A H JärvinenTampere University and Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
Thomas GronwaldInstitute of Interdisciplinary Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-5610-6013
Karsten HollanderInstitute of Interdisciplinary Exercise Science and Sports Medicine, MSH Medical School Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-5682-9665
MSH Medical School Hamburg – University of Applied Sciences and Medical University · DEAmsterdam UMC Location University of Amsterdam · NLLa Trobe University · AUNorthwestern University · USTampere University Hospital · FIUniversité Claude Bernard Lyon 1 · FRUniversity of Copenhagen · DK

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Traumatic muscle injury represents a collection of skeletal muscle pathologies caused by trauma to the muscle tissue and is defined as damage to the muscle tissue that can result in a functional deficit. Traumatic muscle injury can affect people across the lifespan and can result from high stresses and strains to skeletal muscle tissue, often due to muscle activation while the muscle is lengthening, resulting in indirect and non-contact muscle injuries (strains or ruptures), or from external impact, resulting in direct muscle injuries (contusion or laceration). At a microscopic level, muscle fibres can repair focal damage but must be completely regenerated after full myofibre necrosis. The diagnosis of muscle injury is based on patient history and physical examination. Imaging may be indicated to eliminate differential diagnoses. The management of muscle injury has changed within the past 5 years from initial rest, immobilization and (over)protection to early activation and progressive loading using an active approach. One challenge of muscle injury management is that numerous medical treatment options, such as medications and injections, are often used or proposed to try to accelerate muscle recovery despite very limited efficacy evidence. Another challenge is the prevention of muscle injury owing to the multifactorial and complex nature of this injury.

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Muscle, SkeletalHumans

Identifiers

PMID37857686
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