Making Sure Your Body Keeps Up With Your Active Lifestyle

Whether it’s hiking, jogging, or swimming, these activities can be a positive reflection of someone’s lifestyle. However, they can also easily lead to soreness, aches, and overexertion for the body. If an active lifestyle is something you’re accustomed to, chances are you’ve had mornings of waking up with an aching back or sore legs. Short term or long term pain in certain parts of the body can make some people hesitate or slow down their daily lives because they believe their bodies are not equipped to handle a life of intensity. However, pain shouldn’t stop you from doing what you love, especially pain that can be manageable and treated.

Why the Body Aches?

Those with an active lifestyle might question why their bodies feel sore when they have always exercised or have used their muscles constantly. Usually sore muscles occur when the body undergoes a strenuous activity it is not accustomed to and reacts accordingly. However, even those with consistent workout routines can feel pain just by slightly changing their usual regimen. According to WebMD, kicking up the intensity or length of your workout routines can cause soreness and aches. Even exercises that lengthen instead of shorten your muscles, such as walking downhill, will affect your body. The reason being, these small changes can cause microscopic injuries or tears in your muscle fibers and tissue and you, causing you to feel delayed onset muscle soreness. If you’re experiencing specific joint pain, it can be a sign of osteoarthritis. This condition becomes more prominent as you age. The cartilage that normally acts as cushion wears away with age and leaves the joints inflamed and in pain. Overuse or injuries can also damage joints, tennis elbow, or a knee injury are caused by problems with a ligament or meniscus.

How to Manage Sore Muscles and Joint Pain

Depending on the type of soreness your body is feeling, pain can be manageable and you can continue with your active lifestyle, here some ways to prevent or self-treat pain:

• Warm-Up Exercises: If it is determined that the pain is acute and comes from a change in your usual exercise routine, try stretching and warming up before you go for your morning jog or hike. Stretching is one of the best ways to prevent sore muscles from occurring by preparing your body for the coming workout.

• Vitamin Intake: Natural vitamins such as vitamin C and other protein supplements can also help prevent some of the pain. Check with your doctor before taking high doses of vitamins.

• Over the Counter Medication or Home Remedy: Other sources of soreness relief can be found in over the counter anti-inflammatory drugs or by placing ice on the sore muscles. While heat may seem like a better alternative, it perpetuates the inflammation cycle and can be harmful.

• Take it Slow: If you’re starting any new workout routines or activity it’s best to start off slow and warm up. This is will give your body time to adjust and create less tears in the muscle tissue. Eventually, if you continue to work your body out in the same way, it begins to acclimate and more than likely will start to become less sore.

• Don’t Stop Your Lifestyle: Powering through your workout routines or activities can be beneficial for sore muscles and joints. If you’re feeling joint pain, moving and exercising is beneficial for them because joints need to move in order to acquire nutrition.

• Talk to Your Doctor: If you’re unsure what type of pain you’re experiencing or what type of exercise your body permits you to do, visit your doctor and ask before starting or continuing an exercise program that is causing you pain. If your soreness gets in the way of your daily life or work, it may be time to ease up and consult with a doctor on the pain you’re experiencing.

For those who experience chronic pain, having an active lifestyle may seem more of a challenge, but there are ways to manage and continue to enjoy yourself. Unlike acute pain, chronic pain comes from a variety of sources including age, past injuries, or illnesses that can be unassociated with your workout routines or active life. Setting up an appointment with your doctor on how best to manage the pain is an important option.

Pain Treatment Options

Both acute and chronic pain are manageable with pain relief treatments provided by CRPM including:

• Head to Toe Treatment: Each treatment differs according to the specific needs of the patient. Whether you’re experiencing joint, hip, shoulder, neck, or back pain, there are a variety of effective injections that alleviate discomfort and act as an anti-inflammatory treatment.

• Steroid Injections: For people experiencing higher levels of pain, steroid injections have also been shown to be effective when oral drugs or physical therapy have failed because they work fast to relieve targeted pain areas.

• Nerve Blocks: These work as a way of “turning off” pain signals from specific areas of the body causing discomfort.

Pain injections and other pain relief options provided by CRPM can be the answer you’re looking for if your body is feeling soreness, stiffness, or aches during or after a strenuous activity. Consult with your doctor about the type of pain you’re experience as well as your medical history in order to understand the underlying cause. It could be a mere change in your daily routine that affects your body or a chronic condition that needs other forms of treatment outside of soreness relief. CRPM will provide the pain treatment to help preserve your active lifestyle. By keeping some tips in mind like warm up exercises and healthy vitamin intake, you can continue to enjoy your exciting lifestyle without missing a step.