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According to Barriola, if a person experienced muscular pain due to violent exercise or any other reasons, the healer would diagnose a strain, ''zaintiratua'', or the tearing of the tendon insertions, ''zanetena''. It would seem logical to think that tear could be repaired with a few stitches to join the separate parts. Given that this operation was impossible to perform directly on the tendon or muscle, thanks to sympathetic magic, the stitches just had to be made on any fabric placed on the injury Thus, the ''zaintiratua ''was cured by making stitches with a needle and a piece of unknotted thread, which would go backward and forwards through a piece of canvas, but better a sock, and not only for a leg or foot, but even for a stiff neck, while the healer said:
:''Zain tiratu zain urratu'':''zaña bere tokian sartu.''
The operation would end with an Our Father, Hail Mary or the Creed being said, depending on the place, and covering the limb with the same cloth, after rubbing, or with lovage leaves, ''zainbedarra,'' soaked in oil. In the case of a stiff neck, the needle going through the canvas managed to undo the knot that had formed, rather than “sewing” the strain<ref>Ignacio Mª BARRIOLA. ''La medicina popular en el País Vasco. ''San Sebastián: 1952, pp. 85-86</ref>.