It's normal if the abdominal muscles are painfully after weight training. Feeling sensations are tolerant and do not cause fear for health. But it also happens that soreness in the muscular tissues appears, as it seems, for no reason. It is worthwhile to wait if, in addition to pain, there are other symptoms, for example, weakness, fever, violation of stool.
Abdominal muscles ache as a result of an inflammatory, dystrophic or purulent process. Also, soreness will be present if the tissues are injured. The tension of the abdominal wall arises as a protective reaction of the body in surgical pathologies.
Myalgia
Myalgia( which means pain in the muscle tissue) appears when the myocyte is overstrained, which leads to spasm and soreness. To provoke a tone can:
- vascular pathology;
- injury;
- viral infection( eg, influenza);
- diseases, leading to metabolic disorders( gout, diabetes mellitus);
- static load;
- stress;
- forced uncomfortable poses( usually for this reason it hurts on the one hand, for example, on the right).
With myalgia, there is a sharp pain, unrelated to the tension of the muscle fibers or a change in the posture, it does not pass even during complete rest. With disturbed blood circulation, the muscle fibers do not receive enough oxygen, which leads to a violation of the output of glucose and the accumulation of lactic acid.
The acid contains hydrogen and lactate. Hydrogen does not allow you to pass a nerve impulse and affects the rate of contraction of the straight and oblique muscles, which causes a burning sensation. Epidemic myalgia appears when infected with the Coxsackie virus.
The disease causes nausea, chills, acute muscle pains, including in the abdomen and chest. In patients noted reddening of the throat, an increase in lymph nodes, rashes on the skin. Duration of pathology to seven days.
Myositis
One of the forms of myalgia is myositis. Disturbance in the fibers is caused by an inflammatory process that occurs in skeletal muscles. It is characterized by increased pain in movement, the appearance of swelling and rarely reddening of the skin.
Often myositis is a complication of influenza, acute respiratory viral infection or chronic tonsillitis, but it can be caused by excessive physical stress, mechanical trauma, deterioration of blood supply in tissues, exposure to poisonous substances, autoimmune disease, parasites.
Excessive exercise is likely to cause rhabdomyosis( necrosis) of
It is suggested that myositis develops due to the effects of bacteria on the muscles or due to the action of the toxins released by them. Provoke inflammation in the fibers can and alcohol, cocaine, short-term lesions are and when taking medications( colchicine, alpha-interferon, statins).
In muscle fibers, a purulent process may occur, due to infection in the open wound, the presence of a chronic infection in the abdominal cavity, or failure to follow the rules when injected.
There are 6 types of myositis:
- infectious negonous( develops with viral lesions, syphilis, brucellosis, tuberculosis) is characterized by severe pain in muscle fibers and general weakness;
- acute purulent( diagnosed with purulent as well as necrotic processes) leads to swelling and pain in the lesion;
- parasitic nature( against the background of an allergic reaction, it often develops with toxoplasmosis, echinococcosis, trichinosis, cysticercosis) provokes pain, local edema, abdominal tension, weakness, subfebrile condition;
- osfitsirujushchy( appears after a trauma) causes dystrophic processes and aching pains;
- polymyositis( formed in autoimmune diseases) provokes pain and growing muscle weakness;
- dermatomyositis. Disease that affects the skin, organs, muscles of the press, pelvis, neck and shoulder girdle.
As a rule, inflammation affects the muscles of the neck, waist, shin, chest, much less often other muscle fibers, including lateral and oblique abdominal muscles. Clinical symptoms are nagging pain, increasing with movement and touching the stomach, and muscle weakness also appears.
There may be congestion and swelling in the area of inflamed tissue, fever or subfebrile temperature, headache. The acute form of myositis mainly appears after injury of the abdomen, excessive stress, hypothermia.
Chronic is formed against the background of infectious and toxic lesions and proceeds with less vivid symptoms. He reminds himself of static loads, overstrain, overcooling, weather changes.
With the development of myositis, the patient is recommended bed rest and decreased physical activity, symptomatic therapy is performed
. If there is fever, antipyretic drugs are prescribed. Pain analgesics are able to reduce pain, and anti-inflammatory drugs( Ibuprofen, Ketoprofen, Diclofenac) are fighting with inflammation. Once it is established why the abdominal muscles ache strongly, antibacterial drugs, anthelmintic or others, that act on the source of the infection are prescribed.
When local lesions are effective warming ointments, due to irritating action they help to relax, which reduces spasm. With purulent myositis, the hearth is opened and antibiotics prescribed.
Stretching
Stretching is due to muscle overstrain, which happens when the load is more than permissible, since the muscular corset is not sufficiently developed. With a strong increase in intra-abdominal pressure, a rupture of the abdominal wall is likely, which leads to a displacement of the organs( hernia), often this happens when the severity is lifted.
Tissue stretching is caused by a strong contraction, which happens when training for flexibility, turning, falling, abdominal injury
Microtrauma and muscle strain provoke spasm, which leads to soreness. There are 3 degrees of severity:
- moderate( pain is not intensive, it passes after 3-5 days);
- average;
- rupture( appears due to excessive pressure on the rectus abdominal muscles).
When stretching muscles need peace, it is recommended to avoid loads and sharp turns at least two days. Relieve cold compress pain. In severe pain, analgesics and anti-inflammatory drugs are prescribed. Often asked if the muscles can ache, within a week after a hard training. With the rupture of muscle tissue it hurts more than 1.5 months.
Muscle pain as a protective reaction in the pathology of internal organs
Sometimes the protective tension of the abdominal muscles appears in diseases of the digestive system, for example:
- with inflammation of the pancreas, gall bladder, appendix;
- in case of ulcer of stomach or intestine;
- because of the development of a tumor in the small pelvis, rupture of the cyst, aneurysm, fallopian tube;
- with acute intestinal obstruction or ischemia;
- with infringement of a hernia;
- as a result of stretching or tearing of the abdominal muscles.
Muscle aches during pregnancy
Pregnant women often say that the muscles in the lower abdomen are hurting. The symptom is caused by the natural stretching of the muscles. More often similar pains arise after 26 weeks of pregnancy, because the stomach is already large and the muscles are not adapted to the load. The pains are felt in the rectus abdominal muscles that go from the ribs to the pubic bone, since they support the uterus with the growing baby.
For women who did not exercise before pregnancy, muscle pain is much stronger because the muscles are not elastic
To prevent the appearance of microtraumas of muscle tissue with the permission of the doctor, special gymnastics for pregnant women should be done. If the pain does not go away or they are very strong, then it is necessary to tell the doctor who is watching the pregnancy.
Abdominal tension can be caused by pathological processes that threaten the life and health of the mother and child, for example, the rupture of cysts or uterine fibroids, inflammation, placental abruption. Pain in the abdominal muscles during pregnancy will decrease if you wear a bandage. It will reduce the load on the lower abdomen.
Diastase
Diastasis occurs when the white line diverges( the junction of the broad muscles).The causes are pregnancy and childbirth, heredity or obesity. Diastasis of straight muscles can appear in men and children.
During pregnancy, the connective tissue between the broad muscles becomes loose, so that the abdomen can grow. After giving birth, the tissue itself strengthens and the shape of the abdomen is restored within a year. But if a woman pushes the press hard or lifts the weights, then the fabric does not shrink.
Pathology occurs with obesity or a sharp decrease in weight, when connective tissue does not have time to contract, which leads to its "surplus".The divergence of muscles causes and increase in intra-abdominal pressure, for example, coughing up cough, lifting of gravity, constipation, playing sports.
In dysplasia, the structure of ligaments and tendons is disrupted, which leads to excessive extensibility of the connective tissue and provokes the appearance of diastasis or the formation of hernias. Pain in the muscle fibers of the abdomen in violation can be different in character, strength and duration. Often pains increase with prolonged walking, physical activity, lifting of weights.
Pathology contributes to atrophy of abdominal wall muscles and a decrease in their ability to contract
When diastased, muscle fibers are weakened and do not perform their function, so pain can appear even with little physical activity. Due to an incorrect load distribution, it is possible to mix internal organs, form an umbilical hernia, indigestion, pain in the spine.
If the abdominal muscles ache due to exercise, then special treatment is not required, because the symptom will be resolved on its own in 1-2 days. To reduce soreness, you can massage by taking a contrast shower. The tension of the peritoneum muscles is one of the symptoms of an "acute abdomen", in which surgical intervention is required.
Therefore, if the abdominal muscles ache badly for no reason( you did not do physical labor before and did not do exercises), and there are other symptoms, for example, nausea, general weakness, fever, stool, then you need to seek medical help. Only after finding out the reasons for prolonged or periodic muscle pain can you understand what you need to do to eliminate them.
