What should I do if my chest muscles are strained and breathing causes pain?

In modern life, people pay more and more attention to the importance of exercise. Exercise can improve physical quality, enhance physical strength, and make people's mental and physical outlook refreshed. However, excessive exercise can bring some serious problems. For example, chest muscle strain is a common problem. After the strain, it will be accompanied by pain in breathing. Let’s take a look at what to do if you have a chest muscle strain and breathing pain?

Stop exercising

If you strain your chest muscles during exercise, stop training immediately to avoid further stress or exertion on the strained area to prevent the strain from worsening.

Determining the severity of the injury

After a strain, you can first make a simple injury assessment to confirm the severity. If the pain is not very strong and it is just a mild strain, you can use the following methods to deal with it. However, after the strain, there will be severe pain and tearing sensation, local swelling, deformation, tendon rupture and other serious injuries, so you should seek medical examination and treatment in time.

Cold compress

Apply cold compress immediately after a chest muscle strain to relieve the severe pain. The cold stimulation will reduce local blood circulation, reduce exudation, prevent swelling, and avoid expanding the scope of injury.

Specific method: Rinse the area with cold water or wrap ice cubes in a towel and place them on the sprained area.

Compression bandage

After the cold compress, you can apply pressure bandage to help reduce local swelling. When bandaging, it is best to choose an elastic bandage and bandage it evenly on the injured area. It should also be noted that the local blood circulation should be checked frequently after bandaging. If tingling, numbness or cyanosis of the skin occurs, it means that the bandage is too tight. Loosen it appropriately and bandage it again.

Heat

You cannot apply hot compress within 24 hours of pectoral muscle strain, only cold compress. However, you can switch to hot compress after 24-72 hours, which can promote absorption and recovery. Because the normal blood flow to the strained abdominal muscles is too tense and lacking, the muscles are prone to lack of oxygen and glucose. Hot compress can improve blood flow and promote the healing of long-term tense muscle tissue.

Method: Wrap a hot water bottle with a towel or apply a towel soaked in hot water to the strained muscle for 10 minutes, several times a day.

massage

By massaging the strained area, it helps speed up blood circulation, promote blood coagulation, reduce muscle spasms, improve pain, relax muscles, fight inflammation and relieve discomfort.