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He said the only things he has been able to do post surgery is stretching and trying to strengthen the quadricep muscle and the area around it.

Darcy Graham is still missing from Gregor Townsend's squad, but the winger, who picked up a quadricep injury last month, is to resume training with Edinburgh this week, along with experienced prop WP Nel.

“It can’t storm forever,” said guard Monte Morris, who’s been sidelined this season with a strained quadricep.

The club said Benzema was diagnosed with “an injury to the semitendinosus tendon and a strain to the quadricep muscle in his right thigh.”

At the beginning of Silva’s run, a doctor took a biopsy of his quadricep.