1.   Torn muscles retract, and lose strength, structure, and tightness.

2.   He has a torn muscle.

3.   At the hospital, she learned she had a concussion, two torn lumbar discs, a torn abdominal muscle and an injured left eye.

4.   Belcher had offseason surgery to repair a torn muscle in his right elbow and was expected back in early May.

5.   A study of mice with torn muscles suggests that high doses of decorin, an experimental drug, heals muscles by slowing fibroblasts.

6.   Brown is recovering from a torn hamstring and Lyson remains sidelined by a torn abdominal muscle.

7.   Brown made five painful starts with the torn muscle, the last of which was a five-inning start Saturday.

8.   Brown will be sidelined for at least two more weeks with a torn muscle in his chest.

9.   Camp B, on viewing the torn muscles, burnout and other carnage that afflicts those gung-ho types, reasons that exercise is best left alone.

10.   Canseco concedes the entire season has been a struggle, from an abdominal strain to a pulled groin and quadriceps, then a torn abdominal muscle.