Joint Pain Due To Stress
Athletes of the world can attest to the pains they suffer due to their sport. Ballet dancers are prone to pain in the bunions of their feet due to dancing on their toes for hours on end. Football players for the enormous amount of battering their bodies take from being tackled to the ground. But stress on the joints that leads to joint pain comes in all forms and from all walks of life. The worker in a warehouse lifting heavy items constantly that leads to back pains or knee pains to the worker in the office typing on the keyboard for hours on end feeling their hands stiff and sore at the end of the day.
Although most nowadays would consider stress to consist mostly of the daily pressures of life, physical activity leads to stress on the joints that can also cause many physical joint pains that we feel today. Like the athlete, the constant stress that is placed upon the joints can lead to debilitating diseases such as arthritis. But more constantly our choice of work and the repetitive motions and stresses we place upon our body’s leads to joint pain of some sort. Too much stress or work load than our body’s can handle can also lead to conditions such as stress fractures like shine splints.
How is a person to combat such pains in the body? The most practical thing is to not take the body to the breaking point where stress upon the joints causes pain. When that isn’t possible and the injury occurs there are several ways that joint pain caused by over stress of the body is handled.
For joint pains alternating between a hot and cold compress placed upon the place of injury such as the knee has been used to great effect. The cold helps prevent inflammation of the joint while the heat helps circulate the blood to promote healing. In the hands for things such as arthritis, running the fingers under warm water helps loosen the joints while taking a pain medication like ibuprofen to ease the pain. Then rubbing in an ointment such as ‘Tiger Balm’ helps keep the pain at bay while keeping the joints pliable so they can move without pain. For pains like shin splints, keeping the leg well wrapped up with an ace bandage to help limit motion and just plain good old fashioned rest by staying off the leg helps promote healing along with warm compresses.
Managing joint pain due to over exertion of the body is simply to not do more than your body can handle as well as learning basic techniques to lessen the pains that most commonly occur to the different stresses that are placed on the body. For instance, correct posture for typing to reduce fatigue in the hands or learning to lift not with your back but your legs. Simple things like this can help reduce stress joint pain in the future.
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