Why do my calves feel sore every day?

Modern people are under great pressure in life and often forget to take care of their bodies because of various work tasks. This allows many diseases to take advantage of the situation and pose a great hidden danger to people's health. For example, many people feel soreness in their calves after getting off work every day, and feel very tired, which has a great impact on their lives. Let’s take a look at why they feel sore in their calves every day.

The mechanism of muscle soreness is relatively complex, mainly including the following aspects:

① Lactic acid accumulation.

②Muscle spasm.

③ Damage to muscle fibers or connective tissue.

④Other factors. Changes in interstitial osmotic pressure or acute inflammation can also cause muscle soreness.

How lactic acid is produced:

Human exercise requires energy. If the energy comes from aerobic metabolism in the cells, it is aerobic exercise; but if the energy comes from anaerobic glycolysis, it is anaerobic exercise. During aerobic exercise, glucose is metabolized into water and carbon dioxide, which can be easily excreted from the body through breathing and are harmless to the human body. During anaerobic exercise, glucose is fermented into a large amount of intermediate metabolites such as lactic acid, which cannot be eliminated through breathing, resulting in lactic acid accumulation. Self-treatment of muscle soreness: Rest can relieve muscle soreness, slowly promote blood circulation, accelerate the elimination of metabolic products, and eliminate the supply and repair of nutrients to the muscle sore area, resting it back to normal.

Solution:

1. Beat the waist and back: Make fists with both hands and gently beat the shoulders, back and waist. You can also use a patting stick to alternately pat your shoulders, back, waist, and lower limbs. When patting, pay attention to lightly patting the back and heavier on the lower limbs.

2. Leg massage: Massage the anterior inner and anterolateral sides of the thighs repeatedly from top to bottom.

3. Shake your legs: Stand or sit, relax your leg muscles and shake them, while moving your ankle joints up and down, left and right in a circular motion.

4. Push Yintang: Use the thumbs of both hands to push from Yintang point (center of eyebrows) to the left and right to the temples. Repeat 8 to 10 times. Pause for 5 to 10 seconds between each time. Then spread the five fingers apart and push from the hairline on the forehead to Baihui point 5 to 6 times. Repeat this operation 30 times with 5 to 10 seconds interval each time.