pull a muscle

to strain a muscle and suffer the attendant pain. I pulled a muscle in my back and can't play golf today.

Name	Pronounced	Usage
Efstathios	-	Greek
Kaveh	-	Persian, Persian Mythology
Elvira	[el'vaiərə]
Lys	-	Frisian
Helene	he-LEN (Swedish, Norwegian, Danish), he-LE-nu (German)	Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, German, Ancient Greek, Greek Mythology
Afzal	-	Arabic