Muscle soreness after playing basketball can be relieved by general treatment, physical therapy and medication. 1. General treatment: muscle soreness after playing basketball can be relieved by intermittent muscle stretching. And should pay attention to rest, drink more water, reduce the amount of exercise, short-term should not be strenuous exercise, so as not to aggravate the soreness or cause serious damage to muscles and ligaments. 2. Physiotherapy: After playing basketball muscle soreness, you can apply hot compresses, massage, acupuncture to the local muscles to promote blood circulation in the area, speed up the metabolism to reduce the accumulation of lactic acid, so as to alleviate the symptoms of soreness. 3. medication: when the soreness is obvious, you can use Yunnan Baiyao spray, safflower oil, diclofenac diethylamide emulsion and other drugs, but also through oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drug treatment, such as ibuprofen, diclofenac sodium and so on. Before playing basketball should pay attention to warm-up exercises, usually pay attention to appropriate physical exercise, appear to play basketball muscle pain is recommended under the guidance of the doctor standardized treatment. In addition, the above mentioned drugs should also be used under the guidance of a doctor.