How to deal with muscle cramps and strains

Muscle strain is a very common situation when exercising in life. At this time, the location of the muscle strain will cause unbearable pain. It has a great impact on one's life and emotions. Often at this time, everyone gets a massage to relieve the pain caused by muscle strain. Is this correct? Also, what is the best way to deal with cramps and muscle strains? Let’s find out together below.

How to deal with muscle strain

There are two types of muscle strains: active strain and passive strain. When muscles are actively contracted or passively stretched under the direct or indirect action of external force, strains are likely to occur. Active and strong muscle contraction or passive excessive stretching, which causes slight muscle damage, partial tearing or complete muscle rupture, is called muscle strain. Although muscle strain is not a very serious injury, it will seriously trouble your mind and body and have a negative impact on your body.

1. Rest

If you feel any unusual pain in a certain part of your body during exercise, stop doing it and relax and rest completely.

If you feel any abnormal pain in a part of your body during exercise, stop exercising and relax and rest.

2. Understand the injury

Gently rotating the injured area and performing random gentle movements can help you determine which muscles, tendons, and ligaments are painful or injured so that you know where to focus your therapeutic movements and which movements to avoid during intense exercise.

3. Do not increase the burden on the injured area

After finding out the injured part, not only should you avoid doing exercises that affect the injured area, but you should also be careful not to add burden to the injured area during your daily activities. For example, if you have lower back pain, don't lift heavy objects, and if you have foot pain, avoid running.

4. Exercise around the injury and adopt the "active rest method"

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, you can strengthen the femur, which is the main weight-bearing part. There will be muscles around the injured area that can be moved as desired. For example, injured or taking over tibial muscles hinder the entire squatting movement, but half squatting is still allowed. However, you must be careful when doing it. If you feel uncomfortable during the activity, you should let the entire injured muscle group rest.

Avoid exercising where the injury occurs and adopt the “active rest method”

5. Promote local blood circulation

The injured part must be carefully measured, and a movement that can gently move the injured part must be found. This movement can promote blood circulation, replenish fresh nutrients, and remove waste substances.

We have also learned in detail how to deal with cramps and muscle strains in the above article. The main thing is to rest the injured part. At the same time, you must not overdo the exercise. Gradually increasing the amount of exercise appropriately will ensure that no problems occur in your body. If the muscle strain is serious, you must go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time to achieve better recovery.