He felt a pain, like a pulled muscle in his chest.

Next came Jackson, who did not start because of a pulled muscle in his left thigh.

Running with a pulled muscle, he finished 'a miserable last' in his race.

This year he was forced by a pulled muscle at the end of spring training to think in terms other than pulling the ball.

"I just wanted to stop play," he said, adding that it did little to hurt the pulled muscle.

He'd recovered rapidly, though a pulled muscle still made him limp a little.

The pain from the pulled muscle was quite intense.

A strain is also colloquially known as a pulled muscle.

He has missed the last three preseason games with a pulled muscle in his abdomen.

During lunch the next day, I had to sneak out to the chiropractor to work on a pulled muscle in my back.

He played through broken bones, pulled muscles and several severe knee injuries.

One sleeve was hanging by a few threads, looking exactly the way the pulled muscle in her shoulder felt.

"Well, except for some pulled muscles, and rope burns on your hands, you don't seem in bad shape, either."

But this defeat will linger like a pulled muscle.

"It started with a pulled muscle in my leg.

Wade, Miami's best player, had taken a needle to his right side to calm a pulled muscle.

At Cambridge, he nearly achieved a blue for long distance running but was forced to withdraw from a significant race because of a pulled muscle.

Or getting sidelined by pulled muscles and other injuries?

He pulled muscles in his upper back a few weeks ago, and receives massages on the bench.

The first day on the diamond, he pulled muscles in both legs and ended up stumbling around with a cane for a week.

Scrambling at the metal, he felt a twinge as from a pulled muscle in his neck.

Metabolic scanning has revealed several broken bones and a lot of pulled muscles.

Neil Allen's cause was not helped by a pulled muscle suffered last Sunday.

It's not like it's a pulled muscle where it could get worse."

Walker, a 6-foot-9-inch forward who has been ailing from a pulled muscle in his back and groin, must miss at least five games.

He let go but not before pulling a muscle in his lower back.

The risk of pulling a muscle in that temperature is too high.

I pulled a muscle in my leg playing football yesterday.

This other time, I was scrubbing the kitchen floor and pulled a muscle in my side.

He pulled a muscle during the initial reaction, but otherwise he's feeling fine.

Just when you're primed for the biggest race of your life, you pull a muscle.

"Let me get settled first; you'll pull a muscle in your neck doing it that way."

"This isn't like I pulled a muscle or had a bad day," he said.

Stanton pulled a muscle in his back chasing the ball and had to leave the game.

"And then I pulled a muscle in my rib cage.

Lately it was more like an ache - as if she had pulled a muscle, but all over her legs.

At the 1988 games she pulled a muscle midway through the final and limped over the line in 8th place.

He wouldn't risk pulling a muscle or getting any injury this close to the competition.

She'd given me an elastic thing and some pills, after I pulled a muscle working on the roof.

If you pull a muscle and get into that chair, boy, it will really work it out good.

It hit a side window and I pulled a muscle in my neck wrenching around to see what was about to eat me.

A pitcher can pull a muscle while practicing his bunting.

"My wife pulled a muscle over our last jump.

He missed the club's training but team official said he pulled a muscle.

Sierra pulled a muscle in his left rib cage during batting practice.

It tends to go on strike by pulling a muscle or twisting a joint.

Provided Stile did not overextend himself and pull a muscle.

Chavez missed a follow-up right to the body, and doctors said that was when he might have pulled a muscle in his shoulder.

Wesley whipped his head around so quickly he pulled a muscle in his neck.

He laughed so hard, he almost pulled a muscle.

Montgomery strained a muscle running before the first full practice.

"We can participate in sports with no concern about straining a muscle."

"With the light gravity it's hard to imagine anyone straining a muscle."

You can strain a muscle with an unexpected pull or twist.

When your back tightens up, you are more likely to pull or strain a muscle.

He strained a muscle on his left side in the first inning, and pitching through the pain did not help.

He also strained a muscle in his lower leg.

This is especially true on cold days when you are more likely to pull or strain a muscle,' says Nigel.

"But you never strained a muscle stretching for him."

He strained a muscle in his left side Friday and was placed on the disabled list yesterday.

First, he strained a muscle, then teammates made fun of him dropping kicks.

Running out a ground ball to end the second inning, he strained a muscle in his upper thigh.

He thought he had strained a muscle, but it didn't go away.

Pujols, though, strained a muscle in June and missed 15 games.

Find someone who has strained a muscle.

Pettitte said the Yankees believe he might have strained a muscle in his back.

McDermott pitched seven innings as a sophomore and strained a muscle in his shoulder trying to do both jobs.

Lifting Ezratah around perhaps, though how could you strain a muscle using magic?

Capriati strained a muscle near her right hip and lower back while practicing earlier in the day.

Martinez, 41, strained a muscle in the right elbow-forearm area on his first pitch of the fourth inning.

He once strained a muscle while vomiting.

Robinson, the 7-foot-1-inch center, strained a muscle in his lower back while scoring a rebound basket and left the game with 2:59 left.

The right-hander gave up four hits before straining a muscle in his left side on his second pitch of the sixth.

If you sprain or strain a muscle or joint, first ice it for 20-minute intervals until the swelling goes down.

But he was unable to compete in the final as he had strained a muscle at the finish of his semi-final heat.