What to do about stiff shoulder muscles

If you want to effectively solve the problem of shoulder muscle stiffness, you should pay attention to understanding the causes. Some of the causes are muscle soreness during exercise, while others may be caused by some diseases. Therefore, you should pay attention to clarify the causes before treatment.

1. There are two types of muscle soreness . One is the muscle soreness that occurs during or immediately after exercise, which is caused by lactic acid accumulation because the lactic acid content reaches its peak at this time; the other is muscle soreness on the second or third day of exercise, which is mostly caused by muscle damage; occasional muscle soreness caused by muscle fiber damage is not surprising, because the process of muscle growth is an excessive recovery process from muscle fiber destruction to recovery, but prolonged or severe muscle soreness is a manifestation of over-training, which will cause great harm to the body.

2. Notes on fitness exercises

1. Do muscle stretching exercises before and after fitness, mainly static stretching.

2. Be sure to follow the principle of gradual progress, no matter whether it is weight-bearing or training intensity. For beginners, muscle soreness will occur even without weight-bearing fitness, let alone weight-bearing. No matter how much weight you can lift, you must start from zero intensity and increase it slowly.

3. After fitness, supplement protein and carbohydrates to repair muscles.

3. Once a muscle strain occurs during fitness , you can use cold and hot compresses to eliminate soreness. 1 to 2 days of cold compresses can relieve pain, followed by 1 to 2 days of hot compresses to completely eliminate pain. During this period, you can do some simple activities, such as walking and stretching exercises.