Treatment for muscle pain

Treatment of muscle pain always depends on the identified cause and type of disease. However, most often, painful muscle symptoms are caused by myofascial syndrome, the treatment of which is difficult. This is due to unrefined etiological factors, which are still the subject of heated discussions between rheumatologists, orthopedists, neurologists, phlebologists and other specialists.

It is obvious that the polysymptom nature of muscle pain dictates the need to use all possible methods accepted by the medical world.

We offer a general scheme that determines the treatment of muscle pain. Of course, a more precise plan of therapeutic actions can only be made by the attending physician after a comprehensive examination, taking into account all the individual characteristics of your body.

1. Muscle pain, myalgia, uncomplicated by accompanying symptoms (temperature, purulent inflammation, etc.), are treated at the first stage without the use of medications. First of all, the treatment concerns muscle unloading, correction of body position when performing professional actions, relaxation, correction of posture, and possibly body weight.
2. Massage, rubbing muscles with external warming agents (ointments, gels).
3. Manual ischemic compression of a specific pain (trigger) zone to improve blood supply to muscle tissue.
4. Physiotherapy (thermal).
5. Acupuncture, acupuncture.
6. A set of therapeutic physical exercises.

If muscle pain is intense, strong, acute, it is relieved with non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, both externally and in tablet form. In addition, muscle relaxants and some types of psychotropic drugs can be prescribed to neutralize the depressive state.

How to get rid of muscle pain?

In order to get rid of muscle pain, a comprehensive approach is needed, so therapy is aimed at influencing all body systems that are involved in the pain syndrome.

Typically, the first stage of treatment is prescribed ointments, gels, and topical medications. Their task is to change the pathological connection between muscle and pain. As a rule, medications from the group of muscle relaxants, non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, and less often analgesics are prescribed. In addition, distracting, irritating agents, warming ointments, often based on medicinal herbs, poisons, and containing essential oils, give a good effect. Among the most popular medications are Voltaren Gel, Deep Heat, Diclofenac Gel, Apizartron, Myoton, Vipratox, and others.

Algorithm of therapeutic actions for muscle pain:

• Immobilization of a body part, limb, providing rest to the muscle.
• Applications, rubbing with external agents.
• Prescription of muscle relaxants.
• Prescribing NSAIDs – non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs.
• In case of pain, injections (analgesics) are prescribed into the trigger zone.
• Acupuncture.
• Massage.
• Performing special muscle stretching exercises.
• If muscle pain is secondary, treatment of the underlying disease causing the symptom.

Ointment for muscle pain

An ointment for muscle pain is usually the first remedy that can relieve a painful symptom, a spasm. Ointments can have different effects:

• Painkillers, analgesics.
• Anti-inflammatory.
• Circulatory enhancers, hyperemic.
• Warming, irritating action.
• Anti-puffiness.

List of the most popular and effective remedies used in the treatment of myalgia:

• Viprosal based on gyurza venom, also containing fir essential oil, camphor and other active substances. The ointment has contraindications - allergy to essential oil and venom.
• Kapsikam, containing benzyl nicotinate, camphor, turpentine, dimexide. The ointment relieves muscle pain well, but it cannot be applied to surfaces with wounds or cuts.
• Finalgon, containing nicotinic acid ester, nonylic acid vanillylamide. Activates blood supply well, dilates blood vessels, has a local warming effect.
• Fort gel.
• Diclac gel.
• Denebol gel.
• Ben-Gay.
• Fastum gel.
• Olfen.
• Analgos.
• Dolobene.
• Tarflex.
• Apizatron.
• Finalgel.
• Traumeel.
• Diclosan.
• Veral.
• Deep Heat.
• Rheuma gel.
• Espole.

You can buy an ointment for muscle pain without a prescription at any pharmacy, but it is better if a doctor examines the injured muscle, determines the extent of the damage, the cause of the pain and prescribes a specific, effective drug.

Muscle Pain Relief Cure

The treatment for myalgia can be a topical medication, tablets, injections, or massage, physiotherapy procedures, or therapeutic exercises.

It all depends on the severity of the pain, the location of the muscle and the prevalence of the symptom.

• Non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, mainly based on diclofenac, ibuprofen, indomethacin:

Ointments with diclofenac:

• Diclovit.
• Diclac.
• Dicloran.
• Voltaren.
• Diclofenac.
• Ortofen.
• Diklobene.
• Dicloran plus.

Ointments with ibuprofen:

• Nurofen
• Dolgit
• Movalis, Nurofen, Nimid and other drugs of this group are also effective.

Ointments containing poisons and capsicum extracts, such as Viprosal, Doctor Theiss, Espole, Efkamon, Kamfocin and others, have a local irritating, pain-relieving effect.

Compresses with alcohol - ant, camphor, with balms - are applied to the area of the damaged muscle.

Warming massages, applications using heat, warming external agents, and heating pads are prescribed.

Immobilization with a tight bandage is indicated.

Exercise complexes for stretching the spasmodic muscle (post-isometric relaxation) are effective.

Pain is relieved with painkillers, analgesics, and antipyretics are prescribed.

In case of concomitant depressive conditions (fibromyalgia), antidepressants are indicated.

In case of fibromyalgia, a course of psychotherapy gives a good effect, especially with the use of behavioral methods, relaxation techniques, and autogenic training.

Pain reliever for muscle pain

Before stopping the pain symptom, choosing a painkiller for muscle pain, you need to determine the root cause and the nature of the damage to muscle fibers. If myalgia is caused by vascular disorders, the analgesic should be selected in accordance with the effect on the vascular system, but if the pain is caused by microtrauma of the fibers, a completely different drug is selected in the same way as for neutralizing pain in myositis - muscle inflammation. A painkiller for muscle pain should act on excessive irritation, excitation of deep tissue receptors that respond to damage reflexively.

As a rule, NSAIDs in tablet form are prescribed to relieve pain - non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antipyretics and analgesics, which help eliminate inflammation, reduce tissue swelling, and relieve the symptom. It should be noted that almost all NSAIDs have undesirable side effects on the digestive system, so when prescribing non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, their negative effects and benefits are always taken into account. Indomethacin, diclofenac, ibuprofen, ketoprofen, analgin can also have a negative effect on the body. To avoid gastropathy, NSAIDs are always prescribed 30-40 minutes after eating and only for a limited period. In addition, there are more gentle methods of treating muscle pain - these are external agents that do not have toxic properties and are quite effective in relieving the pain symptom.

Risks of prescribing painkillers for myalgia:

• Age (children, elderly people).
• History of gastrointestinal diseases.
• Incompatibility with glucocorticosteroids.
• Pregnancy.
• Long-term use (it is not allowed to use NSAIDs for more than 7-10 days).

Benefits of NSAID pain relievers for myalgia treatment:

• Local application in the form of external agents has a pronounced analgesic effect.
• Anti-inflammatory action.
• Reduced swelling.
• Activation and increase in range of motion.
• Activation of local microcirculation.

Muscle Pain Patch

Hypertonicity of muscles, spasms and microtraumas of muscle fibers provoke pain and can limit a person's movement. Modern treatment of myalgia includes all available methods and types, but the most common and effective method remains local thermal action on the trigger pain zone. Applications with ointments, gels, tinctures, as well as kinesioplasters (from kinesis - movement) are used as warming up. The patch for muscle pain is easy to use, effective and helps to quickly neutralize the pain symptom, relieve swelling and get rid of spasms. Local action is provided by transdermal penetration of medicinal substances contained in the patch and warming up the muscles in the deep layers.

The patch for muscle pain is also used for the following diseases and conditions:

• arthritis, arthrosis.
• bruises (contusions).
• stretching.
• lumbago.
• soft tissue swelling.

A big advantage of the kinesioplaster is the absence of side effects on the gastrointestinal tract, as with the appointment of NSAIDs - non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, antispasmodics or analgesics. The patch is perfectly combined and complements basic therapy, significantly reducing the recovery time. The previously popular warming pepper patch has today been supplanted by new types of external painkillers - Extraplast, patches based on Chinese medicinal herbs, Nanoplast Forte, Ketonal Thermo and other patches that do not irritate the skin, have air-permeable and hygroscopic properties.

Bananas for muscle pain

Myalgia, muscle strain, especially after training, is accompanied by a decrease in the level of glycogen in muscle fibers. This is due to the fact that glycogen supplies energy nutrition to muscle tissue in the form of glucose, if there is not enough glycogen, nutrition is disrupted, the pain symptom intensifies to the point of spasms, the process of catabolism (disintegration) of muscle cells develops. The situation can be corrected in various ways, including carbohydrate-rich nutrition. However, regular carbohydrate products may not so much affect the muscles as give additional kilocalories, and therefore affect weight gain.

An alternative option that is considered dietary and at the same time nutritious are bananas.

How can bananas help with muscle pain? First of all, due to the large amount of vitamins, microelements, natural sugars and a minimal amount of kilocalories. As an argument, we will provide a list of useful substances per 100 grams of bananas:

Substance	Grams, kilocalories
Squirrels	1.5 g
Water	74.0 g
Fats	0.5 g
Starch	2.0 g
Carbohydrates	21.0 g
Polyunsaturated fatty acids	0.2-0.4 g
Monosaccharides	12.0 g
Diasaccharides	8.0 g
Fiber, dietary fiber	1.7-2.0 g
Vitamin A	0.2-0.5 g
Vitamin C	10.0 g
Vitamins B1, B2, B3, B6	1.0 g
Vitamin B9	10.0 g
Potassium	350 g
Magnesium	40-45 g
Sodium	30-35 g
Phosphorus	28-30 g

It is obvious that bananas “work” against muscle pain due to the large amount of typical “muscle” microelements – magnesium, potassium, sodium and phosphorus.

In addition to the fact that you can restore not only strength, but also muscle tissue by eating 2-3 bananas daily, they are often used as an external pain reliever for myalgia. The recipe is as follows:

• Peel 5-7 bananas.
• wash and chop the peel.
• Pour 0.5 liters of vodka over the chopped banana peels (in a dark glass container).
• Store the infusion in a cool, dark place for at least 14 days.
• After 2 weeks the tincture is ready, it can be rubbed into painful spots, used for applications and compresses.