What causes muscle soreness and pain?

Muscle problems are common in life. The causes of muscle pain are very complicated, and it is difficult for ordinary people to figure it out. However, the feeling caused by muscle pain is very strong, which can cause great pressure and impact on people's lives. Therefore, it is very necessary to pay attention to muscle pain. Let's take a look at what is going on with muscle soreness and pain? I hope everyone can understand.

Muscle soreness can be caused by exercise, infectious diseases, and other conditions. The theories include: ① Tissue traction: caused by muscle damage. ②Muscle spasm: caused by repeated muscle cramps. ③Connective tissue: caused by injury to the connective tissue of the muscle (such as tendons). In fact, chronic muscle soreness is caused by muscle damage and division.

1. Muscle soreness after drinking

Excessive alcohol consumption can first cause a large amount of creatine and lactic acid to be produced in the muscles, leading to muscle soreness in the limbs, muscle soreness all over the body, and a feeling of swelling. The large amount of acid in alcohol enters the muscles, causing muscle and joint pain.

2. Osteoporosis

Irregular soreness in the long bones and muscles of the limbs is a clinical manifestation of osteoporosis. Its main manifestations are unexplained pain throughout the body in the elderly, scoliosis, hunchback, irregular soreness in the long bones and muscles of the limbs, calcium deposition, bone degenerative lesions, muscle atrophy, fractures and fracture complications, etc.

3. Back pain

The main symptoms are radiating pain, soreness, squeezing pain, cough pain, pulling pain, etc. in the waist, back, shoulders and legs. In mild cases, it affects normal life, and in severe cases, it damages health and can even lead to loss of ability to work.

4. Cramps

The scientific name is muscle spasm, which is a spontaneous tonic contraction of a muscle. Common leg cramps are actually calf muscle spasms, which manifest as the calf muscles such as the gastrocnemius suddenly becoming very hard and unbearable, which can last from a few seconds to tens of seconds.

5. Muscle tension pain is a clinical manifestation of neurasthenia. It is characterized by easy excitability and fatigue, and is often accompanied by emotional symptoms such as tension, worry, and irritability, as well as physiological dysfunction symptoms such as muscle tension pain and sleep disorders.