What does a thigh strain feel like

At present, due to changes in living environment and accelerated pace of life, people are under great pressure and have various health problems. They need to strengthen physical exercise. If the exercise is more intense, thigh strain is likely to occur. After thigh strain, there will be pain, limited movement, redness and swelling, etc. Next, I will introduce them to you in detail one by one. I hope it will be of some help to my friends. If you have any troubles, you can read the content in detail.

First of all, you need to determine whether you have a strain. Generally, this can be judged from three aspects. 1. If it is a strain, the pain usually occurs in one-sided muscles. Because it is rare that muscles on both sides are injured at the same time. Especially during exercise, strain usually occurs on one side. 2. If you strain your leg, you will experience point pressure pain. For example, you can press the painful area with your fingers to see if there is radiating pain at a certain point. Rather than a large area or the entire muscle being painful. 3. Severe strains can cause functional muscle disorders. For example, if you are experiencing pain in the posterior thigh, a severe strain will cause your calf to be unable to bend backward.

Simply stretching your legs is more likely to cause muscle strain. First, it is recommended to warm up for about 20 minutes and then start stretching. And stretching is also required. The first is stretching time. The correct stretching time is 15-30 seconds, then rest for the same amount of time or slightly less and then repeat the stretching. The total stretching time can be about 20 minutes. Second, it is recommended to use static stretching when stretching. For example, when stretching the legs, that is, stretching the hamstrings on the back of the thigh, gradually move the upper body closer to the thigh until a little pain appears on the back of the thigh. Then just hold on. (A special reminder here is that you don't need to feel the tearing pain, just the critical point of pain or a slight pain will be enough. If you stretch it to a larger extent, the muscles will be overstretched and it is very easy to get strained.) If you use elastic stretching, the muscles will have a self-protective contraction when they are stretched violently, and the stretching effect will be unsatisfactory.

Finally, it is suggested that when we talk about stretching ligaments, we are not actually stretching the ligaments, but stretching the muscles. This is because the ligament itself has very little elasticity. Once the ligament is stretched, it is basically impossible to return to its original position. This will result in poor stability of many joint movements. For example, many people will develop a habitual sprain after suffering a serious ankle sprain. The main reason for this is that the ligaments around the ankle joint are forced to stretch due to external force and cannot return to their original position, resulting in poor stability of the ankle joint. Therefore, it is easy to sprain the ankle if it is slightly affected by external force in the future. So we are actually stretching the muscles because the elasticity of muscles is very good. Therefore, we need to stretch our muscles while developing them. This will first make the muscle lines longer and also make you more flexible.

To sum up, if you have a muscle strain now, you should stop and rest, because the muscle will have a self-repair time after a muscle strain. If you strain it again, it will easily cause the muscle injury to worsen and delay the healing time.