Muscle soreness, dealing with it ? Just know more about it and prevention tips.


Most of the people, especially beginners suffer from a muscle pain that begins after they have worked out. This muscle pain nearly stays for about two to three days after workout, and called muscles soreness. In scientific terms, it is also called as Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS).

Although most of the people feel acute muscle soreness. That somewhat vanishes after four to five days of regular workout. It’s generally a burning sensation that one feels in a muscle during working out, due to quick build-up of lactic acid.

According to researches and scientific studies, muscle soreness symptoms typically occur up at least 12 to 24 hours after workout. One will feel reduce range of motion due to pain, muscle fatigue, swelling in affected muscles, short term loss of muscle strength.

• Know the exact cause of muscle soreness.

High intensity workouts can cause tiny microscopic tears in your muscle fibres. Human body is to compensate the loss and damage, increases inflammation. This is the main reason that leads to a delayed onset on soreness in muscles.

Eccentric exercises are those exercises that cause you to tense a muscle at the same time when you lengthen it. These are the most common reasons of muscle soreness.

Although most of the people have a myth that muscle soreness is cause of increase in lactic acid in the muscles. But several scientific studies and researches have proved it a misconception.

Anyone performing any type of physical work, no matter from elite athletes to beginners, even normal people doing normal chores. If they have not performed any physical activity that triggers muscle for a long time will face muscle soreness.

Just keep in mind muscle soreness may strike to anybody, it clearly not depends on level of fitness.

• Know about the treatment of muscle soreness.

Till now time is the only treatment for muscle soreness or DOMS. But one can take several steps to ease the pain and stiffness in muscles.

1. Some of these scientific researches proved that people who receive massage any time between 3 days after workout. Reported significantly less soreness than people who didn’t get any post workout massage. A professional massage parlour is not required for that. You can just rub the triggered muscle for some period of time. For better results, rub gently with some hot oil.

2. Taking a warm shower after workout is the best way to relax your body. It will surely help to relax down the triggered muscles and reduce the impacts of soreness.

3. There are several topical analgesics available in the market. They are specially manufactured for relieving pain. Analgesics with arnica will work for medication of muscle soreness.

4. As mentioned above after muscle soreness the pain is because of body’s inflammation process. So just try to have good amount of anti inflammatory products or food. They will surely help in bringing inflammatory levels down.

5. Finally, if you have severe muscle soreness and pain is just out of control, then it is advisable to take help of a medical expert because it may be severe and can cause other impacts on body.

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