Can Chiropractic Care Relieve Muscle Pain?

Pain occurs primarily due to strong muscle contraction – spasm. At this point, the muscles are so tense that they compress the nerve endings, which in itself causes pain.

In addition, the vessels are compressed, so the body tissues do not receive enough oxygen and nutrients. Under-oxidized metabolic products and lactic acid accumulate in large quantities. This also irritates the nerve endings and causes pain. The body is trying with all its might to make it clear that something is wrong in this place.

In turn, the causes of muscle spasms themselves can be very different:

• muscle damage due to physical activity or injury,
• vascular pathologies,
• stress,
• inflammatory muscle diseases,
• endocrine diseases, etc.

 

Muscle pain with myalgia is usually dull and aching, accompanied by muscle weakness. Nausea, headaches, general weakness, and stiffness may also appear. Painful sensations can be felt throughout the body or be localized in the legs, neck, and shoulders, or chest area. Depending on the type of myalgia, they can intensify when palpating the muscles, during movements, or be felt constantly.

If myalgia continues long enough, it stresses the joints and spine more. For example, chronic tension and pain in the muscles of the back and neck can lead to wear and tear of the intervertebral discs. Therefore, it is necessary to begin appropriate chiropractic and drug treatment with Soma muscle relaxant as early as possible.

If the cause of myalgia is inflammatory in nature, treatment is also necessary urgently since delay is fraught with disability.

Chiropractic care is the most effective treatment for myalgia. Its effect is aimed, first of all, at eliminating the very causes of pain.

In addition, manual manipulation also relieves spasms and pathological muscle tension. Releases nerves pinched by spasmed muscles. Restores normal blood circulation, which leads to the saturation of both superficial and deep layers of muscles with oxygen. Metabolic processes improve, and muscle tissue begins to recover actively. The outflow of lymph increases and the tissues are intensively freed from toxins, which, among other things, provoke severe muscle pain.

Thanks to the complex chiropractic effect on all the main causes of the disease, even severe pain goes away after the first sessions. Not only muscle tissue is restored, but also joints that were subjected to increased stress and internal organs. Over the course of several sessions, the entire body is healed and its natural balance is restored.

Cramps may go away on their own. To speed up this process, follow these simple instructions:

• stop doing what caused the spasm;
• carefully stretch the muscle, relax and massage the affected area;
• heat the muscle if it is still in spasm;
• if the spasm has already passed, but the pain remains, apply a cold compress;
• to avoid spasms and cramps, monitor the flexibility of muscles and ligaments, do exercises in the morning;
• remember to warm up before exercise or physical activity;
• drink more water when exercising.

 

Drug therapy for muscle spasms has two directions:

1. Impact on the vicious circle: muscle spasm – pain – muscle spasm. Pathogenetically justified is the prescription of muscle relaxants, such as Soma (Carisoprodol) , which reduce the flow of pain impulses from the periphery.
2. Impact on the functional state of structures on which the transition of pain into chronic pain to a certain extent depends on the formation of the syndrome of vegetative dystonia with the development of anxiety, depressive, and asthenic reactions.

 

The third area of treatment is patient rehabilitation. The main tasks of rehabilitation are to create a new correct motor stereotype, teach the patient the ability to control his body, control the condition of his muscles, and create or strengthen a muscle corset. The main attention is given to the pathogenetic complex of corrective and general strengthening exercises.