Joint & Muscle Pain

Progressive Doctors Pain Relief formula offers the safest, effective and most non-invasive pain and inflammation relief available for sprains, strains and bruises.

 

Sprains and strains affect your joints, ligaments, tendons and muscles. Both usually occur after a fall or sudden movement that violently pulls or twists a part of your body. Chronic overuse of muscles or joints can also cause strains and sprains.

 

Muscle pain may be referred to as myofascial pain syndrome or MPS.

 

Symptoms of a Sprain:

Pain and rapid swelling in the affected joint; often accompanied by bruising, stiffness and with difficulty moving;
Increase in skin temperature near the swelling and redness of the skin.

Symptoms of a Strain:

Sharp pain at the site of the injury with movement; Pain followed by stiffness and tenderness, and in some cases - swelling and bruising; Inability to fully bear weight on one's knee or ankle; Limited range of motion of the shoulder, elbow, or wrist.

Call Your Doctor If:
The pain, swelling, or stiffness does not improve in 2 to 3 days.
You feel a popping sensation when you move a sprained joint; this may indicate a serious injury that requires immediate medical treatment. You can't move or bear weight on an injured joint. You may have a broken bone. The bones in an injured joint don't seem to be aligned properly. The ligaments that hold the joint together may be badly torn, requiring surgical repair. An injured muscle doesn't move at all. The muscle may be torn completely through and require immediate medical attention.
You have repeated sprains or strains, indicating a chronic weakness that should be evaluated by a doctor. You have difficulty moving or walking after straining any back muscle.
You have a fever, and the injured area is red and hot; you may have an infection.

 

Myofascial Pain Syndrome (MPS) is a fancy way to describe muscle pain. It refers to pain and inflammation in the body's soft tissues.

 

Myofascial pain is a chronic condition that affects the fascia (connective tissue that covers the muscles). Myofascial pain syndrome may involve either a single muscle or a muscle group.
In some cases, the area where a person experiences the pain may not be where the myofascial pain generator is located. Experts believe that the actual site of the injury or the strain prompts the development of a trigger point that, in turn, causes pain in other areas. This situation is known as referred pain.

 

What Causes Myofascial Pain?
Myofascial pain may develop from a muscle injury or from excessive strain on a particular muscle or muscle group, ligament or tendon.

 

Other causes include:

Injury to intervertebral disc
General fatigue
Repetitive motions
Medical conditions (including heart attack, stomach irritation)
Lack of activity (such as a broken arm in a sling)

What Are the Symptoms of Myofascial Pain?
Myofascial pain symptoms usually involve muscle pain with specific "trigger" or "tender" points. The pain can be made worse with activity or stress. In addition to the local or regional pain associated with myofascial pain syndrome, people with the disorder also can suffer from depression, fatigue and behavioral disturbances.

 

How Is Myofascial Pain Diagnosed?
Trigger points can be identified by pain that results when pressure is applied to an area of a person's body. In the diagnosis of myofascial pain syndrome, four types of trigger points can be distinguished:

 

An active trigger point is an area of extreme tenderness that usually lies within the skeletal muscle and which is associated with a local or regional pain. A latent trigger point is a dormant (inactive) area that has the potential to act like a trigger point.
A secondary trigger point is a highly irritable spot in a muscle that can become active due to a trigger point and muscular overload in another muscle. A satellite myofascial point is a highly irritable spot in a muscle that becomes inactive because the muscle is in the region of another trigger pain.

How Is Myofascial Pain Treated?
Physical Therapy
"Stretch and spray" technique: This treatment involves spraying the muscle and trigger point with a coolant and then slowly stretching the muscle.

Massage Therapy

Trigger Point Injection
In some chronic cases of myofascial pain, combinations of physical therapy, trigger point injections, and massage are needed. In select cases, medication is used to treat other conditions that often occur with myofascial pain, such as insomnia and depression.

 

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