His family physician diagnosed his injury as a muscle strain that ... Mark's signs and symptoms are typical of a ruptured muscle -- the pectoralis major. Rupture of the pectoralis major is an ...

Common activities associated with this injury include weight lifting (especially bench pressing), wrestling, American football, and rugby football. Injury to the pectoralis major muscle is usually ...

Pectoralis major rupture is a rare injury. Roughly 144 cases have been reported in the world literature ... Wolf et al, 5 in 1992, reviewed 12 patients with 14 ruptures of the pectoralis major muscle.