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Symptoms of disease - pain in the muscles

Muscles (from the Latin musculus - mouse, a small mouse) - authorities of the bodies of animals and of man, consisting of elastic and elastic muscular tissue, able to shrink under the influence of nerve impulses. They are designed for performing different actions: the movement of the body, reducing the vocal chords, breathing. Muscles are made up to 86.3% of the water.

Muscle pain (myalgia) - pain, resulting in inflammation.

For myalgia typical pain, which arise in the muscles during movement or when pressure is applied on them. This may be amazed at how one or more of the muscles. The pain can spread to the nearby ligaments, tendons, and fascia.

Which diseases there is pain in the muscles

Possible cause muscle pain

Muscle pain is most often associated with their tension, congestion or accidents, which occur at physical loads. The more likely to suffer a certain group of muscles and pain occur at some time after the load.

In addition, the pain may be a symptom of common diseases, including infectious (e.g., influenza) and rheumatic (myositis, lupus). List of causes of pain in the muscles can be presented as follows.

The most frequent reasons:

- Damage, strain or injury of the muscles during exercise.
Stretching occurs due to a sudden strong reduction or excessive muscle tension.
With a mild sprain injury is the cause of the feelings of stiffness and pain in the muscle, which lasts several days.
Tensile moderate degree of stiffness in the muscles and already more severe pain accompanied by swelling and bruising. Pain in the muscles of the remains from 1 to 3 weeks.
When pain occurs gap muscles, and also have internal bleeding, in result of which it is recommended surgical intervention.
- Overload.
- Excessive stretching.

Other possible causes:

- Administration of some drugs (statins - drugs that reduce the level of cholesterol; angiotensin converting enzyme inhibitors are drugs that reduce high blood pressure);

- Inflammatory diseases of the muscles of the autoimmune nature (dermatomyositis, polymyositis);

- Inflammatory diseases of the muscles infectious nature (myositis of viral, bacterial, parasitic etiology).
Myositis - inflammation of the skeletal muscles. May occur as a complication of various diseases, such as influenza. Frequent cause of myositis is the overexertion of muscles due to the unaccustomed physical strain or injury of muscles.
When myositis appear aching pain in the muscles of the arms, legs, torso, intensifying when moving. Often reflected in the muscles of the tight knots or fibres. With open traumas, as a result of penetration of infection may develop purulent myositis, which is increased body temperature, chills, the gradual tightening of pain, swelling, seal and strain muscles, redness of the skin over it.

A form is a parasite myositis, arising out of the affected muscles of the parasites (trichinella, cysticerci) and characterized by fever, pains in the muscles of the limbs, chest, language, masticatory muscles.

Myositis - inflammation of the skeletal muscles. May occur as a complication of various diseases, such as influenza. Frequent cause of myositis is the overexertion of muscles due to the unaccustomed physical strain or injury of muscles.

- Electrolyte disorders (lack of potassium and calcium);

- Fibromyalgia;
Pain arising in the fibrous structures - the muscles, tendons, ligaments, etc., refer to fibromyalgia. Fibromyalgia is the most common form of chronic myalgic syndromes. It is revealed, that fibromyalgia is often accompanied by a violation of sleep. Note that the combination of pain, morning stiffness, fatigue, and sleep disturbances is celebrated more than 75% of patients.

Fibromyalgia can be of different localization, but most often affects the neck region, the lower part of the back (lumbago), the neck, the area of the shoulder joints, chest and the thigh near the knee joint. Such pain occurs mainly in women. It can be called or increase physical or mental strain, sleep disorders, trauma, damp or cold, and sometimes the system, usually rheumatic diseases.

The syndrome of primary fibromyalgia especially often develops in young healthy women, characterized by anxiety, susceptibility to stress and depression, as well as among adolescents, particularly among girls. Men are more subject to local fibromyalgia in case of overload, connected with work or sport.

Primary fibromyalgia is a form of defeat extraarticular soft tissues, characterized by the spilled musculoskeletal pain and the presence of specific painful points or points of hypersensitivity, as detected by palpation. Numerous studies have shown that fibromyalgia suffer 1-2% of the population of developed countries, and there is a tendency to the increase of the specific weight of this pathology among other rheumatic diseases. A characteristic feature of the syndrome of primary fibromyalgia is the abundance and diversity of complaints of the patient with a small number of objective evidence of the disease. The main symptom of primary fibromyalgia is a chronic diffuse bone-muscular pain, which, as a rule, combined with unpleasant sensations in the muscles.

- Infectious diseases (flu, lyme disease, malaria, abscess muscles, polimielit, called trichinosis, etc.);
- Systemic lupus erythematosus;
- Rheumatic polymyalgia;

Which doctor should I contact if there is a pain in the muscles

• Family doctor
• Traumatologist
• Rheumatologist
• Doctor of medical physical culture
• Infectious disease physician

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