One Sunday afternoon, Emerson was helping his elderly father get into bed when a loud pop disrupted an otherwise quiet moment. He wasn’t sure if the sound came from him or his father, but then the pain set in and Emerson knew he’d hurt himself. The long head of the bicep muscle in his right arm had torn away from the bone.

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