General physical & muscular pain - Acupuncture & Chinese Medicine

General physical and muscular pain: If we are not used to doing something our muscles and surrounding tissues will ache.

If we are not used to doing something our muscles and surrounding tissues will ache. However, if we continue to exercise those areas that are not used to working in those particular ways, we may cause muscles and tendons to become inflamed and in some cases will become damaged.

Tennis elbow, overuse syndrome or RSI as it was commonly called, exercising for too long or too hard, bending over to weed the garden beds for an extended period of time or simply doing something you are not used to doing can all cause general physical and muscular pain.

Particular jobs or careers can lead to signigficant muscle aches and pains. anyone who is active or has a physical job (painters, tilers, hair-dressers, gardeners as well as people who regularly use computers) can expect some muscular and / or ligament tension. This can increase as the work intensifies or as a person ages.

Physical and muscular pain is a reminder to take it a little more slowly next time

You may decide after feeling sore because of the general physical and muscular pain that you are simply not going to do whatever activity it was ever again. Of course that is up to you, but general physical and muscular pain is just a reminder to our bodies that we haven’t done that before, and perhaps to take it a little more slowly next time.

Relieving the symptoms of general physical and muscular pain can be achieved easily and effectively with a course of treatment. Traditional Chinese Massage (Tui Na) is perfect for relieving general physical and muscular pain. Our practitioners gently work the areas between the joints known as the eight gates, to attempt to open the body's defensive chi (Wei Qi) and get the energy moving in the meridians and the muscles. Acupuncture may also be used along the meridians to relieve physical and muscular pain.

As you continue your course of treatment you will find your muscles and soft tissues gently responding to the treatment allowing you to undertake more physical activity as they release tension and stress.

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How can we reduce the risks of muscular pain?

Every time we attempt to do something for the first time, we risk muscular pain occuring.

Say for example you have never gone for an hour long walk before and you decide that in order to get fit, you are going to go for an hour long walk every evening from this moment on.

Or in a bid to cut costs you are going to do your own gardening and house cleaning rather than paying someone else to do it for you.

What is going to happen is that muscles, ligaments, tendons and your skeleton structure that are used to doing certain things in a certain way are going to become stressed and we are likely to experience muscular pain as a result.

How can we reduce the risks of muscular pain?

Start slowly.
If you are not used to walking, start with 10 minutes. Once your body gets used to doing 10 minutes add another 5 until such time you are walking for your desired time.

If you are planning on reducing costs and completing your own gardening and housework it might be a good idea to reduce the number of times you outsource these jobs so you can ease yourself into the tasks.

Unfortunately most of us go all out and end up "over doing it" causing us to suffer from muscular pain. So what can you do once you have muscular pain?

There are many excellent treatments for muscular pain. One of the easiest is to keep doing the activity that caused the pain in the first place just at a reduced rate until such time as your body gets used to doing it. But for more immediate and effective relief we can use a combination of acupuncture, remedial chinese massage and traditional chinese medicine.

Any of these on their own or in combination for faster, more effective treatment can reduce or eliminate muscular pain.