Remember the advertisement about the "fast-gel", where grandfather decided to remember his youth? Like, the pain in the muscles is strong, it does not matter, now we'll anoint it, and everything will pass. But that's advertising, but in life everything is much more complicated. So let's talk today about muscle pain after training, working in the country, during or after a cold, etc. We learn the reasons for its occurrence, as well as how to deal with it.
Muscle aches: causes
So, the reasons why there are muscle pains, the whole sea. Let's go through the list of the most frequent of them:
- Muscle pain after training. This phenomenon is known not by hearsay and the figures of great sport, and amateur athletes. Muscle pain arises after intensive training because lactic acid starts to be produced in the muscles under the influence of motion. It is her stagnation and cause painful sensations. If you are not too lazy and do not quit physical education, these pain will eventually go away by itself. But in any case, the load on the muscles should be reasonable.
- Seasonal and one-time overwork. First and foremost, this applies to summer residents. With the arrival of spring, they seek their homestead plots, where they work without sparing their strength and muscles. And then severely pay the muscle pain akin to what happens after a thoughtlessly hard training.
- Muscle pain due to hypothermia. To earn such a sore, it is enough to sit in a draft for a short time or go out into the cold without bothering to get warm.
- In all the blame for the common cold. The phenomenon, when it breaks the back, legs and hands during the flu, ARD or sore throat, is known to everyone. This is due to the general intoxication of the body. With the disappearance of acute manifestations of the illness, pain will also go away, and to make it happen more quickly, drink more hot tea on herbs and stay in bed if possible.
- Muscle pain as a signal of internal diseases. According to the traditional medicine, our body is a single system, where each cell of the skin and muscles is connected with a specific internal organ. Therefore, it is quite natural that in the event of the defeat of one of them, one or another muscle group begins to suffer from a disease. At masseurs even there is a system of diagnostics of various diseases in a place of localization of painful fabrics. And of course, to eliminate muscle pain in this case can only be cured by the diseased internal organ.
How to relieve muscle pain?
Of course, if the muscles ache, then we need to find the cause and start treatment. But all this takes time, and sometimes considerable, but how to relieve muscle pain and ease your condition or the condition of your loved ones, until the cause is discovered and treatment is not prescribed?
First, you should relax the affected muscle as much as possible. It will help to achieve this state of the pose, in which its attachment points will be maximally approximated. So, for example, if the back surface of the foot hurts, bend it in the knee and hip joint, and for stability under the knee fold and under the feet, put the rollers.
Secondly, very often the cold helps to cope with the pain. Apply to the affected area an ice pack or a piece of meat from the freezer, after wrapping it with a towel. Just remember that in order to avoid hypothermia keep the ice can not be more than 10-15 minutes.
The other extreme, helping to cope with pain - it's warm. For example, hot salt, heated sand or a conventional electric heater. But keep in mind, all the above methods are just an ambulance. Treatment of muscular pain should be handled by a doctor.
Folk Remedies for Muscle Pain
Well, of course, with muscular pain of any origin, you can successfully fight with the help of traditional medicine recipes. Take a large leaf of cabbage, remember it slightly and soap it, and then sprinkle with ordinary baking soda. Then apply this peculiar compress of soda side to a sore spot and fasten with a woolen shawl. Keep the compress about 2 hours, do daily.
Or take 1 egg, 1 tsp. turpentine and 1 tbsp. l. apple cider vinegar. Mix everything and beat to a consistency of thick sour cream, and before going to bed rub into sore spots and wrap them with a wool shawl. And yet, when you or your loved ones get sick with muscles, do not neglect the doctor's visit.