What to do if the thigh muscle is strained

When we exercise, we may accidentally strain the hamstrings. Many people are relatively familiar with this structure. Tendons are also called tendons. They are located between bones and muscles and play a connecting role. There is a difference between tendon strain and muscle strain. They are located in different locations and have different courses of disease. It takes a hundred days to heal a tendon injury. Under normal circumstances, tendon strains recover more slowly, and severe ones may take three months to recover. What should I do if I strain my hamstring?

Patients with muscle-tendon injury will feel a little discomfort when walking, but when they make quick movements, such as running, they will immediately feel severe stabbing pain. The pain is usually felt on the inner thigh near the groin, and even the inner knee may hurt. The affected area is slightly swollen, and pressing will cause pain. In addition, whether stretching or providing resistance, the patient will feel pain.

A muscle strain is an injury caused by a sudden contraction or overstretching of a muscle during exercise. This is common during stretches, pull-ups, and sit-ups. After a muscle strain, there is severe pain in the strained area, and you can feel a cord-like lump formed by the muscle tension with your hand. It is obviously painful to touch, and there is local swelling or subcutaneous bleeding, and movement is obviously restricted. After a muscle strain, you should immediately apply cold treatment - rinse the area with cold water or apply ice cubes wrapped in a towel, then wrap the injured area with a bandage with appropriate force to prevent swelling. While relaxing the muscles of the injured area and raising the injured limb, you can take some analgesic and hemostatic drugs. The bandage is removed after 24 to 48 hours. Depending on the severity of the injury, you can apply blood circulation and swelling-reducing plasters, apply appropriate hot compresses or massage the injured area with lighter techniques. If the muscle strain is severe, such as if the muscle belly or tendon is broken, you should rush to the hospital for surgery to suture it.

Preventing muscle strains Many people suffer from muscle strains during bodybuilding. No matter how you put it, muscle strains are the enemy of bodybuilding training, and often force you to give up muscle training in that area for a long time. So we need to prevent muscle strain early. Rest If you feel some abnormal pain in a certain part of your body during bodybuilding training, don't continue. You should relax and rest completely. Understand the injury. Gently rotate the injured part and do some gentle movements to determine which muscles, tendons, and ligaments are painful or injured. This will help you know where to focus your treatment movements and which movements to avoid during intense bodybuilding training. Do not add burden to the injured area. After finding out the injured part, not only should you avoid doing bodybuilding training movements that affect the injured part, but you should also be careful not to add burden to the injured part during daily activities. For example, if you have lower back pain, don't lift heavy objects, and if you have foot pain, avoid running. Use the "active rest method" to bypass the injury. The human body has more than 600 muscles. Therefore, even if you injure 100 muscles, you still have more than 500 muscles to train. All muscles should be exercised to improve your health and achieve balanced development. At the same time, the femur, which is the main weight-bearing part, can be strengthened. For example, injured or taking over tibial muscles hinder the entire squatting movement, but half squatting is still allowed. However, it must be done with caution. If you feel uncomfortable during the activity, you should let the entire injured muscle group rest. To promote local blood circulation, you must carefully measure the injured area and find a bodybuilding training movement that can gently move the injured area. This movement can promote blood circulation to replenish fresh nutrients and remove waste substances. Stretch the injured area gently and slowly until you feel slight resistance, then stop and try to relax the injured area. When doing this, try to stretch further. When the muscles are stretched and relaxed, more therapeutic blood will flow to that area, and they will heal faster. However, if you stretch too much, it will lead to worsening of the trauma or even further injury.