Muscle pain due to stress?
Do you regularly suffer from stiff or painful muscles due to stress?
Unfortunately, you're not alone. Muscle pain due to stress is a common problem.
This isn't surprising, because under stress, your body prepares to take action and your muscles tense up. When you're in "stress mode" for an extended period, this leads to constant tension in your muscles. This ultimately leads to stress-related muscle pain.
When you experience stress, cortisol is released in your body. Cortisol, also known as the stress hormone, ensures that you can quickly release energy, allowing you to fight or flee in stressful situations. But in many stressful situations, our bodies don't need to fight or flee at all, and the cortisol produced is unnecessary. As a result, the cortisol produced accumulates in your body. When this happens frequently, it can lead to excessively high cortisol levels. This can have various consequences, including restlessness and a lack of energy.
Are you experiencing stress for an extended period? Not only does this result in excessive cortisol production, but it also hinders your body's ability to recover. This results in physical symptoms such as muscle soreness and pain.
When you're stressed, your muscles tense up. The connective tissue around your muscles tightens, making it harder to move. This increased muscle tension and limited range of motion can lead to muscle pain. This primarily manifests as back pain, neck pain, tension between the shoulder blades, and can even lead to tension headaches. Furthermore, stress can cause you to adopt poor posture, as tense muscles affect your natural posture.
In addition, stress symptoms such as fatigue and tense muscles around your chest and abdomen can make breathing more difficult.
By combining therapeutic/medical massage and relaxing massage, as I do at Power2Heal, you can reduce the complaints and even make them disappear completely.