Whether or not to continue exercising after post-exercise muscle pain depends on the specific situation. Patients with post-exercise muscle pain may be caused by physiological factors, may also be muscle strain, soft tissue inflammation and other pathological factors caused by the former can continue to exercise, the latter is recommended to suspend exercise.
1. Physiological factors: Exercise time is too long, too much exercise will lead to a large accumulation of lactic acid, which can not be broken down and discharged in a timely manner, thus leading to muscle soreness. In this case, you can carry out low-intensity, long aerobic exercise, such as brisk walking, which can accelerate the body’s speed of recovery after exercise, you can also do some gentle, slow stretching action to soothe the excessive tension of the muscle groups.
2. Muscle strain: insufficient warm-up before exercise or excessive force during exercise may lead to muscle strain, resulting in muscle soreness. In this case, training should be suspended, should be in the strain within 72 hours of cold compresses, 72 hours after the change to hot compresses, can be used at the same time Yunnan Baiyao aerosol and other blood circulation drugs, pay attention to rest.
3. Soft tissue inflammation: repeated repetition of the same action may local soft tissue strain, resulting in aseptic inflammation, which in turn leads to muscle pain. At this time should stop exercise, can use ibuprofen extended-release capsules and other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs to anti-inflammatory pain, pay attention to rest.
Muscle pain after exercise should be timely consultation, identify the cause of the disease, follow the doctor’s instructions for treatment, to avoid delaying the condition or blindly continue to exercise to make the condition worse.