What to do if you pull a muscle while running?

As people pay more attention to their physical fitness, some people with poor physical fitness have begun to choose fitness to improve their physical fitness. However, if the method is improper during the fitness process, some injuries will occur. Muscle strain due to running is a common situation. Many people who encounter this situation do not know how to deal with it. So, what should you do if you pull a muscle while running?

First, what should you do if you strain your muscles while running? Muscle strain is an injury caused by rapid contraction or excessive stretching of muscles during exercise. This is common during stretches, pull-ups, and sit-ups. After a muscle strain, there is severe pain in the strained area, and you can feel a cord-like lump formed by the muscle tension with your hand. It is obviously painful to touch, and there is local swelling or subcutaneous bleeding, and movement is obviously restricted. After a muscle strain, you should immediately apply cold treatment - rinse the area with cold water or apply ice cubes wrapped in a towel, then wrap the injured area with a bandage with appropriate force to prevent swelling. While relaxing the muscles of the injured area and raising the injured limb, you can take some analgesic and hemostatic drugs. The bandage is removed after 24 to 48 hours. Depending on the severity of the injury, you can apply blood circulation and swelling-reducing plasters, apply appropriate hot compresses or massage the injured area with lighter techniques.

Second, in sports, due to improper warm-up activities, the physiological function of a certain muscle has not reached the state required to adapt to the exercise; the training level is not enough, and the muscle elasticity and strength are poor; fatigue or excessive load causes the muscle function to decline, the strength to weaken, and the coordination to decrease; wrong technical movements or lack of concentration during exercise, excessive or rough movements; low temperature and high humidity, poor quality of venues or equipment, etc. can all cause muscle strain. ?When completing various movements, muscles actively and violently contract, exceeding their own bearing capacity; or they are suddenly and passively over-stretched, exceeding their elasticity, which can cause strain. For example, when bending over to grab the barbell during weightlifting, the erector spinae muscles may be strained due to strong contraction; when doing exercises such as front leg stretches and vertical splits, suddenly exerting too much force may cause excessive passive stretching of the posterior thigh muscles and cause injury; horizontal splits exercises may cause excessive passive stretching of the inner thigh muscles and cause strain. In sports, strain of the posterior thigh muscles is the most common. The adductor muscles of the thigh, lumbar and back muscles, rectus abdominis, calf triceps, upper arm muscles, etc. are all prone to muscle strain. ?