What causes muscle inflammation?

What causes muscle inflammation?

  • Acute myositis 
  • Infections such as the common cold or flu
  • Playing sports that involve force, contact and impact, such as football, swimming, tennis, etc.
  • Exercising or lifting heavy objects
  • Use of certain medications, such as colchicine, cholesterol-lowering drugs, and hydroxychloroquine, etc. 

What the symptoms of myositis? 

  • Some people may experience pain along with numbness.
  • Pain in the muscle area
  • The level of pain can range from fatigue, tiredness, and even to excruciating pain where you cannot move the painful part of your body.
  • There is limited movement in the inflamed muscle area.
  • If the inflammation becomes more severe, there may be swelling, redness, and heat. 

Symptoms can myositis lead

  • Generalized myositis
  • Office Syndrome

Diagnosis of myositis

Electromyography

It is the insertion of an electrical current, which looks like a small needle, through the skin into the muscle. This type of examination helps to find damage or weak muscles due to muscle inflammation. 

MRI Scan 

MRI scans use high-energy electrical currents to view tissue structures. Abnormalities such as inflammation, tearing, or injury. It is a highly accurate and safe test.

X-ray

It is an additional examination. When the doctor is suspicious about the condition or various causes. It is an examination that does not take a long time. Can tell the stage of the disease. Allow the doctor to plan treatment for the patient.

Collect muscle samples

The doctor will find the weak muscles and perform surgery. Then, the muscles will sent to the laboratory for examination to find the cause of the injury or inflammation. However, this method difficult to diagnose and requires detaile examination of the muscles. 

Muscle inflammation, what is the treatment? 

  • Treatment is by taking and taking anti-inflammatory drugs or muscle relaxants (should be under the advice of a doctor).
  • Apply heat to the area of ​​muscle inflammation.
  • Do physical therapy 

How to prevent muscle inflammation? 

  • All substances should not be injected into a muscle or vein. If it is really necessary to inject medicine, the skin in that area should be cleaned thoroughly.
  • Get a flu shot every year, as the flu is one of the possible causes of myositis.
  • If it is necessary to use a drug that has a side effect of causing muscle inflammation, it should be used in the amount recommended by the doctor.
  • Avoid risky behaviors in daily life that may cause muscle inflammation.
  • Do not overdo it. Exercise in moderation. 

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