What causes muscle pain?

Muscle pain is usually caused by strenuous exercise, long-term fatigue, trauma and other reasons. Muscle pain will feel very painful and affect our daily life. To treat muscle pain, we must first find the cause and then treat it symptomatically. If the muscle pain is caused by strenuous exercise, you should pay attention to warming up before exercise. It is best to exercise properly every day. In addition to the reasons caused by washing, what other reasons cause muscle pain? Let’s take a look at it next.

1. What causes muscle pain?

The main causes of muscle pain are as follows. The first is local trauma. Trauma can cause bleeding and edema of muscles and surrounding tissues, thereby causing muscle pain. The second most common cause is muscle strain. After sudden violence or prolonged pulling, the tissues surrounding the muscles are damaged, causing muscle pain. The third common reason is neurological. For example, pain in the lower limb muscles, such as lumbar disc herniation, compresses the lumbar nerve roots, causing a series of neurological symptoms, including lower limb muscle pain, sometimes accompanied by convulsions.

2. How to relieve muscle pain

1. Apply cold compress. After exercise, use an ice pack or wrap an ice cube in a towel and place it on the target muscles for cold compress. It is worth noting that you should not put ice cubes in direct contact with your skin, otherwise it is easy to cause frostbite on the skin. Generally speaking, the time of cold compress should be controlled within 10 to 15 minutes, which can relieve fatigue and accelerate recovery. Taking a cold shower is also a good choice, which can make people less tired.

2. Take a warm bath. If you can't stand the low temperature of a cold water bath, you can try a warm water bath, keeping the water temperature between 30 and 40 degrees. Taking a warm bath can help calm your heart and nervous system, and can also keep your skin cleaner. After taking a warm water bath, people will feel more energetic and fatigue can be eliminated faster. The reason why hot water baths are not recommended is that the microstructure of the muscles is damaged after exercise. Hot water baths will speed up the blood circulation of the injured muscles, and the damage to the microstructure will be more serious, which is not conducive to recovery.

3. Supplement nutrition. After exercise, you can drink some sports drinks and restore muscle glycogen levels by eating some carbohydrates. You can eat within 2 hours after exercise. At the same time, you should also pay attention to supplementing your body with vitamins and nutrients to help restore your physical strength.

4. Ensure adequate sleep. Resting can relieve muscle soreness, and it also has the effect of slowly promoting blood circulation, accelerating metabolism in the body, and excreting metabolic products as soon as possible, which is very beneficial for muscle recovery. After exercise, ensure adequate sleep time so that the body can slowly repair itself, protect human health, eliminate fatigue, and restore physical strength.

5. Get a massage. After exercise, you can massage the sore areas to relax the muscles, promote blood circulation in the muscles, help repair muscle damage and relieve spasms. Through post-exercise massage, the lactic acid accumulated in the muscles during exercise can be converted or discharged as quickly as possible, and the symptoms of muscle soreness can naturally be relieved.

3. Notes

It is worth noting that even if the muscles are sore and tired, do not massage the target muscles and soft tissues immediately after exercise, otherwise it will increase the damage to the muscle microstructure and is not conducive to recovery. You should choose to massage some time after the exercise.