If you experience arm pain after playing badminton, you have to choose the appropriate treatment according to the different causes. The specific causes are lactic acid buildup, tendon injuries, muscle spasms, etc. Specific treatment methods are physical therapy, drug therapy and surgical treatment.
1. Lactic acid accumulation: when playing badminton, often swinging the arm and racket action, so the arm local muscle movement may be more than the human body load, the phenomenon of lactic acid accumulation. Patients can feel the arm soreness. Generally after sufficient rest, to be absorbed by lactic acid pain will disappear, you can also carry out hot compress physiotherapy to accelerate lactic acid absorption, relieve pain.
2. Tendon injury: playing badminton excessive exercise or arm accidentally sprained, shoulder joint tendons such as supraspinatus tendon injury, will feel the arm pain.
Patients can take the first cold compress and then hot compress physical therapy, can also use non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs such as ibuprofen, celecoxib and other anti-inflammatory analgesic. If the patient’s tendon damage is serious, or even tendon rupture, then need to carry out surgery such as tendon suture surgery.
3. muscle spasm: long time playing badminton may lead to arm muscle spasm, muscle persistent spasm and tension caused by arm pain. Patients can take local stretching massage to relieve spasm. Muscle spasm can be treated with muscle relaxant drugs such as Eperisone tablets under doctor’s advice.
If patients with arm pain after playing badminton are advised to seek timely medical attention, choose the treatment based on the results of their own examination under the advice of the doctor.