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Do your muscles, joints or ligaments hurt?

Very often, a person experiences pain in the muscles, ligaments or joints, but cannot accurately identify the pain due to its unclear localization and blurred symptoms. Myalgia (muscle pain) and arthralgia (pain in the articular apparatus) can develop as independent phenomena, but they can also accompany each other.

The reasons for this pain are numerous:

Infectious agents,
Inflammatory processes,
Autoimmune pathologies,
Metabolic disorders,
Lack of vitamins and minerals,
Injuries (bruises, hyperextension, overextension, tears, contractures),
Osteochondrosis,
Hypertonicity and physical stress,
And many other factors.

Symptoms of trauma and inflammation in the tissues of the musculoskeletal system may differ, but are often similar.

Joint injury signs:

pain when stationary and when moving,
violation or limitation of motor functions in the joint,
pain when moving in the articular apparatus (flexion - extension, rotation),
swelling in the area of the articular joint,
tissue hyperemia (redness) in the joint area.

Signs of a muscle or ligament injury:

pain when moving and without moving,
tissue edema and hyperemia (redness) are more often observed in cases of sprain, rupture or tear of ligaments or muscles,
myalgia, myositis and injuries of the ligamentous apparatus are often forced to restrict movement in places where inflammatory processes develop.

The nature of pain in a joint, muscles or ligamentous apparatus may differ with various types of injuries and tissue overloads:

Acute pain syndrome is characteristic of a violation of the integrity of tissues (rupture or tear of the ligament, muscle fibers, synovial bursa), and is also observed with spasms and contractures. This kind of pain is felt in a specific place, a limited area.

Diffuse pains (dull, aching) that do not have precise localization are characteristic when oxidative processes in tissues are disturbed (for example, during intense sports, increased muscle stress).

In order to resolve the issue of visiting a doctor or self-treatment of pain in the tissues and structures of the musculoskeletal system, it must be remembered that short-term pain (lasting up to two days) can be an indicator of an overload of muscles, ligaments and joints. But with an overload of muscle and ligamentous tissue, its independent recovery is possible after a time, proportional to the strength of trauma and stress, and an overload of the joint (even a single one) can lead to the onset of irreversible changes in its structure. Usually short-term and irregular unreasonable pains in muscles, ligaments and joints are amenable to home treatment: non-steroidal ointments and gels (Nise, Fastum-gel, Bystrum-gel, Fenistil-gel, etc.), reduction or refusal of loads, warming up with a heating pad or salt, fixation with orthoses. If muscles, ligaments and joints hurt for more than two days or for a short time, but regularly for no particular reason, then a doctor's consultation and diagnostics are required.