Muscle Pain
Serving the Greater San Bernardino County Area including Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario, Fontana, Upland, CA
Aching Muscles Aren’t A Hopeless Case To Help
Some soreness is to be expected when working out, especially if you have a tough regimen of exercises. It’s the way this mild pain often lingers on for days that makes this sometimes harder to deal with than anything else.
At Recovery Lab of Rancho Cucamonga, we’re aware of how tough this is, which is why we’re eager to help you with the experience and tools we’ve collected, which we go over below.
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- What Causes Muscle Pain?
Mostly, muscle pain is associated with strains, sprains, and pulled muscles.
However, bruising also causes muscle pain, such as when you hit something or something knocks into you hard enough to leave a large bruise.
Other injuries like cuts, if they go deeper than just the top layers of your skin, also cause your muscle there to hurt until it heals.
If you’ve ever felt achy while being sick, you know that illnesses affect your muscles as well. Additionally, there are chronic health conditions, such as polymyalgia rheumatica, which involves near-constant inflammation of your muscles.
Though there are too many more examples to name them all, most causes of muscle pain fall into one of those categories.
- Muscle Pain And Exercising
Obviously, if you sprain something or get a torn muscle during a workout, you’re going to feel pain and soreness afterward.
However, even after a perfect workout where nothing goes wrong, your muscles are still likely to be sore to some degree afterward. This is because of the wastes your muscles naturally produce when they’re used.
Most of the time, when you’re not exercising, your body is able to keep up with removing the waste. However, when you’re having a long workout, you aren’t able to remove it as quickly as it’s made, resulting in it sticking around in your muscles.
This waste is not appreciated by your muscles, and it lingering is what’s largely responsible for the stiffness, redness, and pain you feel that gets worse over time after working out. Unfortunately, this is normal.
- Ways to Prevent Muscle Pain
Firstly, as far as working out goes, use your common sense.
Don’t overexert yourself by doing more than you should at once, watch your posture so you aren’t putting unnecessary strain on muscles not equipped for it, and ensure you’re getting enough nutrients in your diet for your muscle health and are drinking plenty of fluids.
Equally important, things like stretching and warming up before and cooling down after are all able to go a long way to prevent your muscles from hurting.
- How Can Recovery Lab Help Treat My Joint Pain?
Simple answer: through our many services! This is on top of having our trained recovery specialists ready and willing to help you in any way possible.
As circulation goes a long way to both help prevent and treat muscle pain pretty much regardless of the cause, many of the therapy options we offer are ones that boost your circulation in one way or another, such as our hyperbaric oxygen therapy, NormaTec therapy, and cupping.
Meanwhile, our red light therapy and one or two others focus more on increasing the productivity of your cells, enabling them to heal and remove waste and overall care for your muscles better.
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