Stretching muscles is a traumatic lesion of muscle fibers, joints of muscles and tendons. This situation can occur with strong muscle tension, subsequently loads. Muscle strain is not a very dangerous ailment, but rather painful. To accelerate the process of tissue repair, it is necessary to combine traditional therapy with the treatment of muscle strain at home.
Causes of Stretching Muscles
Stretching muscles can occur for several reasons, the main of which are:
• serious physical exertion;
• sharp movements;
• weakened muscles;
• too hard physical work;
• prolonged stay in an unnatural position;
• neglect of workouts before training in the gym;
• Errors when doing stretching exercises.
With such a pathology, a sharp pain occurs, which causes one continuous discomfort. Therefore, it is necessary to promptly begin the treatment of muscle strain at home.
First aid for stretching muscles
After stretching the muscle, the first step is to ensure peace. It is important to avoid any physical exertion and sudden movements. Within 2 days after muscle damage, rest is required.
Cold first helps. With the resulting tension, it is necessary to apply cold to the lesion site. Such actions will help to avoid swelling and reduce pain. Ice should be applied as soon as possible for a quarter of an hour. Then apply ice every 4 hours for 2 days. Be sure to wrap it in tissue, otherwise frostbite may occur.
The damaged part of the limb must be fixed. If bruising has occurred after the injury, it is imperative to apply an elastic bandage. The limb should be slightly above body position. In this case, put a pillow under the limb. This will help prevent the appearance of puffiness. Only use medicines if necessary.
Traditional methods of treating sprains
It is possible to treat muscle strain at home with the help of folk remedies. There are many effective recipes. This method of therapy is aimed at eliminating pain. It is recommended that you use tools such as a complement to the traditional method. The recipes are as follows:
1. Heat in a pan beer up to 50 degrees. It does not have to rise completely. In the resulting heated composition, moisten a towel, unscrew it and sprinkle with ground black pepper on one side. This side should be directed to the affected area for 15 minutes. Repeat the procedure 4 times. Between each session should be at least 20 minutes.
2. Grate onion either pass through a meat grinder and mix with sugar. It should end up with a porridge-like consistency. The resulting slurry is placed on a bandage and applied to the affected epidermis for one hour. Repeat the procedure in a day.
3. Ash grape shoots must be mixed with olive oil in a ratio of 1 to 4. The resulting product to lubricate the affected areas.
4. For sore spots, application from blue clay. It must be mixed in advance with the liquid to obtain the consistency of thick sour cream. Refrigerate before use. Repeat the procedure every 4 hours.
5. Applications from raw potato. Raw potatoes must be grated and mixed with salted or fresh cabbage. Apply the resulting mixture to a sore spot overnight and fix it with a bandage.
6. Boil over low heat garlic in animal fat. It must be pre-ground into gruel. Add frayed eucalyptus leaves. Thoroughly lay out the entire mass. Rub the resulting product into the epidermis to eliminate the island-inflammatory process.
7. Make garlic infusion. Roll gauze in several layers and soak it with the resulting infusion. Squeeze a lemon on the same gauze and apply to the affected muscle. Keep this compress until the gauze heats up. After again, perform actions with a coolant.
8.10 cloves garlic skip through the press and add 0.5 l of apple cider vinegar. Then add 100 ml of vodka. Put in a dark place for 2 weeks. Indoors must be cool. From time to time, the container must be shaken. After this period of time, filter and add 20 drops of eucalyptus drying oil. Mix the mixture thoroughly and apply to the affected area with pathology in the form of compresses.
9. Crush raw elderberry foliage and make compresses. This recipe is suitable in the summer. Change the dressing every 3 hours without fail.
These recipes are most effective for such a problem.
Healing Sprains
Treatment of muscle sprains at home is also possible with the help of such equally effective recipes:
1. Take 5 tablespoons of elecampane and pour 0.25 liters of boiling water. Leave the whole mass for an hour. The resulting infusion needs to soak gauze and fix it in the affected area.
2. The same procedure as in the first recipe can be carried out with tansy flowers.
3. To prepare the healing mass, you need 6 leaves of aloe. They should be washed and grated thoroughly. After add a little honey and mix everything. Put the mass on a bandage and attach to a sore spot for at least 6 hours.
4. Take fresh leaves of wormwood, chop them and pour boiling water for a quarter of an hour. After the grass is transferred to the fabric and applied to the sore spot. Fasten everything with a bandage and leave it overnight.
5. Grate household soap, add twice as much liquid and egg yolk. The resulting mixture must be impregnated with a bandage and applied to the affected area. After that it is necessary to bandage very tightly.
6. Take the roots, twigs and bark of barberry and boil in a glass of liquid for a quarter of an hour. In the resulting product, moisten the bandage and apply such a compress to the place of stretching. In addition to compresses, such a decoction can be taken orally, but in a diluted form. For 100 ml of warm milk, add 2 tablespoons of the broth.
7. Grate two leaves of plantain, potato and add pork fat to the resulting mass. Put the resulting slurry on a bandage with a light layer and attach to the place of stretching. Top with a warm towel. The duration of such a session is at least two hours.
8. Take 3 tablespoons of tincture of calendula and dilute in 300 ml of water. The resulting mass is placed in the refrigerator. After the mixture becomes cold, moisten the bandage in it and apply it to the sore spot.
9. To stretch the muscles in the groin, you need field horsetail. Grind it into powder and mix with butter. Put the mixture in the refrigerator for a day. The resulting medicine is rubbed into the groin.
10. When stretching the foot, cabbage leaves can be used. They should be well kneaded and fixed on the foot. Repeat the procedure before bedtime. Also, when stretching the foot, it is necessary to warm the milk and mix with a decoction of chamomile. Pour the resulting product into the bath and keep the feet in solution for half an hour.
11. When stretching the muscles of the neck, you need to pour half a glass of dried poplar buds with a glass of boiling water. Put the resulting composition on gauze and place on the neck for a couple of hours.
12. In the spring you can pick up birch leaves and put them on a bandage. After attach to the sore neck. Relief will come after the first procedure.
13. Baked onions. Such a compress will help eliminate pain. For cooking, you need to place a tablespoon in a baked onion. The resulting product is applied to the affected area for half an hour.
Such recipes will help eliminate puffiness, quickly remove an unpleasant pain syndrome and facilitate the rehabilitation period.
