What to do about muscle pain in the hands

If the hand muscle pain is traumatic in nature, it is usually edema and pain due to local muscle contusion. In this case, you can apply topical ointment to relieve swelling and pain, activate blood circulation and remove blood stasis; you can also take oral anti-inflammatory and pain-relieving drugs, commonly used as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs. If possible, you can also go to the hospital for physical therapy, such as microwave therapy, infrared therapy or ultrashort wave therapy, all of which can promote local blood circulation and accelerate the local swelling and pain subsidence. If it is not caused by trauma, it is a sudden muscle pain, it may be a local aseptic inflammation of the muscle, this situation can generally be treated with oral non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs, which can eliminate local inflammation, edema, and also have the effect of pain relief. If it is hand muscle pain, accompanied by nerve pulling pain in the shoulder or neck, it may be caused by cervical spine, cervical spine lesions compressing nerve roots, will appear pulling pain in the nerves of the hand, which will also lead to muscle pain, this situation must be treated cervical spine mainly.