Muscle pain

Muscle pain, strange as it may sound, is quite normal for most people. By the end of the working day, coupled with heavy physical exertion or sitting in the office, the muscles, to varying degrees, begin to hurt even a completely healthy person. Another thing is when there are all sorts of diseases in which the muscular pains are constantly present and have an exhausting effect on the body.

Often it is difficult to understand why a certain group of muscles became ill, against the background of a general well-being. However, in some cases, a person is able to name the exact cause that was the forerunner of muscle pain, for example, with a sharp rise in the severity of the pain, the back pain coming either immediately or after a while is easily explained. Absolutely without worry, pain in the whole body is perceived after a long training, but begins to cause anxiety if it does not go away or only intensifies for several days after.

It should be remembered that at the heart of any pain syndrome lie complex processes of interaction between whole groups of internal systems. To understand all the subtleties of your own health, you need to have at least a rough idea of the causes that cause muscle pain.

So, the muscle pain appears as a result:

• overwork;
• violation of posture;
• enhanced training;
• bruises, sprains and other injuries;
• damage to internal organs;
• general common cold, flu, ARVI;
• pinching of the nervous branches (neuralgia);
• strong emotional disorders (psychogenic pain).

And now answer, how accurately can you determine the severity of muscle pain, through self-diagnosis? The answer is obvious, you can only judge by yourself superficially and approximately. Even simple overwork can lead to the development of complex diseases. Therefore, after the main causes of the appearance of muscle pain were named, it is also good to know where to address this problem and how to deal with it.

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Muscle pain and its diagnosis

If the pain has appeared unexpectedly, it was not preceded by any training, bruises or fractures, then you should visit a therapist who, after a detailed study of the situation and a detailed conversation with you, will give all the necessary recommendations and directions to the necessary narrow specialists who are able to better understand the situation. Probably, everything else, you have to visit:

• neurologist;
• orthopedist;
• Traumatologist;
• infectiologist.

Of all possible methods of instrumental diagnostics, the most suitable are magneto-resonance and computer tomograms. In cases of injuries, the most informative is considered an X-ray. Sometimes it is done in several projections to determine the extent of damage or to consider the entire area of debris and the displacement of bones, for example, in fractures.

A more detailed and in-depth diagnosis, with a thorough examination of all internal organs, is performed with muscle pain of unknown origin. In such cases, resort to the services of psychologists and psychotherapists, because it is likely that the cause of muscle spasms in nervous overwork or the development of some kind of mental illness.

In any diagnosis, the most important is the patient's referral to the doctor, without this step it is impossible to guarantee a quick relief from pain, without the development of protracted pathological processes, and, consequently, the onset of full recovery.

Than to treat a muscle pain?

In cases where muscle pain is caused by stretching or bruising, to reduce soreness and swelling, it is necessary to apply cold to the affected area in the form of an ice pack or a plain wet towel. Cold should be applied no more than for 10-15 minutes, otherwise the injured muscle can chill and aggravate the painful process.

If you know for sure that the muscle hurts due to the effects of colds, for example, myositis is played, then it is required to apply not cold, but on the contrary - heat. Warming compresses, ointment products, providing a local warming effect in this case will be very useful.

Once again pay attention. In both cases of application of both heat and cold, it is indicated that the cause of muscular pain is already known. The use of cold, in any situation, harm will not bring. What can not be said about the thermal effect. With certain lesions, the use of warming procedures is contraindicated, whether it be closed fractures or infectious foci, sprains or bruises.

Heat leads to the fact that everything, even the smallest blood vessels, opens, blood circulation in the affected area increases, which leads to increased edema or bleeding. In addition, under the influence of high temperatures inflammatory processes are more violent, and the reproduction and spread of infection - aggressively. Therefore, any methods of treatment should, in the first place, be agreed with the doctor, even by phone and with an emergency care officer.

Before the arrival of the brigade "neotlozhki" or before self-referral to the doctor, you can take a pill of any pain medication, after which the muscle pain may not go completely, but significantly less.