A disease that is characterized by severe pain in muscle tissue is called myalgia. Nowadays, muscle pain is progressing, especially among young people, which is mainly associated with the environmental situation, an incorrect, inactive lifestyle. The nature of pain may be different. The main signs of myalgia are muscle weakness, on palpation the patient feels severe pain, headache and nausea can also occur. Muscle pain can be localized and diffuse, spreading throughout the body and intensifying with physical exertion, hypothermia, sudden movement, emotional and mental overload, stressful situations. Pain occurs in different muscle groups: limbs, neck, trunk, back, chest, etc.
Abdominal muscle pain
Doctors distinguish three types of abdominal pain: somatic, visceral and reflected. The so-called visceral pain occurs in the affected organ. Usually this type of pain is accompanied by profuse sweating, nausea, sometimes vomiting and anemia of the skin. In the parietal peritoneum, many somatic receptors are localized. Therefore, practitioners very often call this type of pain parietal. The patient can often determine its location. The third type of pain occurs with severe irritation of the affected organ, with diseases of the brain and its membranes, as well as other internal organs.
Neck muscle pain (cervicalgia)
Almost every person felt it. This pathology is recorded in almost 15% of the world's population. The causes of this ailment can be neurological, somatic, oncological, infectious, vascular diseases, as well as injuries.
The etiology of the disease is diverse. The causes of myalgia can be diseases that occur when there is a violation of carbohydrate (diabetes mellitus) and nucleic (gout) metabolism. An important role in the development of myalgia (muscle pain) can be played by such factors as hypothermia, chronic intoxication (nicotine, alcohol), injuries, and bacterial and viral diseases. The pathogenesis of myalgia is associated with changes in the biochemical composition in myocytes, which causes disturbances in the contractile activity of muscle fiber.
Muscle pain and treatment methods
In the treatment of myalgia, complex therapy is used (physiotherapy, reflexology) with the use of anti-inflammatory, painkillers, drugs that improve blood microcirculation in the affected areas. To treat myalgia, massage is used that activates the secretory function of the sweat and sebaceous glands, enhances blood and lymph metabolism, which in turn improves trophic processes in the skin and increases skin and muscle tone. During the massage, physiologically active histamine-like substances are formed in the skin, which contribute to the expansion of blood vessels, which spreads to deeply located muscle tissues, and the whole body reflexively affects. The course of treatment can be from 30 to 40 massages.
Under the influence of ultraviolet radiation, biopolymers (proteins, proteids) denature with the formation of highly active biological compounds of protein nature - histamine, biogenic amines, prostaglandins, acetylcholine, which stimulate muscle activity. The course of treatment consists of four exposures to each site. To warm the damaged area, paraffin, mud, ozokerite, clay, mustard plasters, heating pads are used. A good result is obtained with the appointment of warming ointments ( nicoflex, finalgon, flexal, apisartron). These drugs improve trophism in muscle tissue, activate metabolic processes, and exhibit an analgesic effect. For myositis caused by a violation of the nucleic acid metabolism, it recommends radon, hydrogen sulfide, salt-alkaline baths.
There is no specific prophylaxis for this disease. Sharp physical exertion, hypothermia, colds should be avoided.