People who don't exercise and warm up for a long time are prone to muscle strain, especially in winter. Muscle strain is mainly caused by muscle contraction or excessive traction during exercise. This is easy to happen in strenuous exercise, and muscle strain of pull-ups and sit-ups will lead to local pain and tenderness; Swelling, muscle tension, stiffness and spasm; Dysfunction, there will be pain aggravation or collapse depression, obvious swelling and severe subcutaneous congestion, so how should we deal with muscle strain? Here are some suggestions for everyone.

First, determine the injury.

Don't exercise blindly after pulling your arm. First confirm the severity, raise your arm, or swing your arm to see if there will be severe pain. Under normal circumstances, after muscle strain, there is a sharp pain in the strained part. You can touch the strip lump formed by muscle tension with your hand, which has obvious tenderness, local swelling or subcutaneous bleeding, and the activity is obviously limited.

Second, cold compress the injured part.

After the injury is confirmed, it should be treated immediately, and the injured part should be cooled with ice or cold water until the pain and burning sensation are relieved, which can effectively reduce the local temperature and slow down the local blood circulation and swelling.

Third, deal with

Plaster can be used after cold compress, which can effectively prevent the swelling and pain of the injured part, effectively repair the damaged muscles, and massage the injured part with appropriate light hand. After applying plaster to arm muscle strain, it will be obviously improved in about 6 hours. It can effectively relieve pain and swelling.