1.   Muscle tears set solid, discs weld together.

2.   A muscle tear will leave a scar after healing.

3.   An MRI earlier that day revealed swelling and tiny tissue damage in the thigh, but no muscle tears.

4.   And that could mean painful sprains or muscle tears, especially as the body ages.

5.   Clayton is on the disabled list because of a muscle tear behind his right shoulder.

6.   He came as somewhat damaged goods, with a small muscle tear in his right shoulder, but resisted having surgery and has strengthened the shoulder through exercise.

7.   He missed seven weeks after undergoing abdominal surgery and another month with a muscle tear in his right knee.

8.   It was not until last month, when physical therapist Russ Paine sent Lipinski to Florida orthopedist Marc Phillipon, that a muscle tear was discovered.

9.   Seles may have to have surgery to repair a muscle tear in her right shoulder.

10.   She cited a flare-up of the muscle tear in her left shoulder.