While your doctor may prescribe you an ongoing concoction of painkillers to manage the symptoms, they may not always know the root cause of the pain. The reasons you’re experiencing chronic pain can be from an old forgotten injury, or something more serious that should be examined further.
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A muscle pull (or strain) occurs when you twist, pull, or tear one of your muscle. As we age we are more susceptible to muscle pulls. However, you risk a pull if you don’t warm up properly before you exercise and stretch a muscle past its limit, train longer than what your body can handle, or if you push a past muscle injury too far before the muscle has had adequate time to heal.
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A recent study from the journal Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise has determined that intense aerobic exercises performed for 75 minutes per week resulted in lower reports of pain compared to moderate exercises performed for 150 minutes per week. The reason for the reduced pain levels came from endorphins being created continuously in […]
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