{"id":3378,"date":"2019-03-18T12:00:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/2019\/03\/18\/are-your-muscles-just-sore-or-is-it-something-serious\/"},"modified":"2019-03-18T12:00:05","modified_gmt":"2019-03-18T12:00:05","slug":"are-your-muscles-just-sore-or-is-it-something-serious","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/2019\/03\/18\/are-your-muscles-just-sore-or-is-it-something-serious\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Your Muscles Just Sore Or Is It Something Serious?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-715 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pain-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>After a good workout, your muscles hurt.\u00a0 Usually, that means you\u2019re doing it right, but sometimes it can be a sign that something has gone wrong.\u00a0 The question is, how do you differentiate between general soreness (which is both common and a good thing after a workout) and actual pain?<\/p>\n<p>This article will help make that clear.<\/p>\n<p>In order to improve your body, you have to push its limits.\u00a0 When you do that, muscle soreness is one of the short-term results.\u00a0 Fortunately, this mild burning sensation passes within a day or two and can be alleviated via things as simple as resting, stretching before and after your workout, and then more activity.<\/p>\n<p>The more you work your body, the more efficient it gets and the further back your soreness threshold moves.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, if you overdo it, you\u2019ll find yourself experiencing more than simple soreness.\u00a0 Pain tends to run deeper.\u00a0 While soreness is confined to your muscles themselves, pain seeps into your joints too.\u00a0 While soreness will subside with additional activity, such activity will only make pain worse.<\/p>\n<p>Further, soreness tends to be relatively short lived.\u00a0 In two or three days, even after a strenuous workout, the soreness subsides.\u00a0 Pain won\u2019t.\u00a0 It won\u2019t go away until whatever underlying issue is causing the pain has been addressed.<\/p>\n<p>If you give it enough time, those underlying issues will usually (but not always) go away on their own.\u00a0 Even so, most people lack the time or patience for that. \u00a0If you\u2019re experiencing an unpleasant sensation and you\u2019re not sure whether it\u2019s simple soreness or serious pain, and if it hasn\u2019t subsided in a couple days, play it safe. \u00a0Pay a visit to your doctor or your chiropractor and get it checked out.\u00a0 It\u2019s always better to err on the side of caution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-715 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/radianthealth.us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/pain-resized.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/>After a good workout, your muscles hurt.\u00a0 Usually, that means you\u2019re doing it right, but sometimes it can be a sign that something has gone wrong.\u00a0 The question is, how &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3380,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/3380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radianthealth.us\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}