Non Traumatic Muscular Injury

Nontraumatic muscular injuries are defined by the fact that they occur without a clear direct or indirect traumatic event. Concurrently to the latter and despite including a wide spectrum of diseases, nontraumatic injuries often share the common features of insidious onset and a clinically unclear origin. In this regard imaging may play, despite its varying accuracy, a significant role in confirming the presence of a muscular suffering and/or the presence of an anatomic variant that may become painful in itself or responsible for an impingement with neighboring structures such as other muscles, nerves or vessels.