Intense muscle pain after exercise is usually just a minor case of overworked muscles. But it can also be a sign of rhabdomyolysis.
Overexerting your muscles to an extreme degree can cause a life-threatening condition known as rhabdomyolysis.Everyone knows that dreaded feeling the morning after you subject your muscles to an intense workout. Your limbs are so fatigued that getting out of bed is a trying task. A condition called delayed onset muscle soreness—DOMS for short—is most often to blame for those intense muscle aches.
DOMS rarely requires the attention of a doctor, and most often resolves on its own with rest . But what happens when that DOMS doesn’t seem to go away? If your muscle pain gets worse instead of better, and your muscles start to swell and become stiff, it could be a sign of a far more serious condition known as, or rhabdo for short. This condition is the result of the degradation of muscle tissues, which creates waste in the bloodstream that can overwhelm the kidneys.
While rare—and treatable—rhabdo is nothing to scoff about. It almost always requires intensive therapy under hospital supervision. And while still considered scarce, some researchers believe the condition may be on the rise., you are taxing your muscles. That strain typically causes some minor injuries as the muscle fibers themselves break down. That’s usually a good thing; when your muscles heal, they replace the damaged tissue with more than was there before—making.
But you can have too much of a good thing. The harder you work your muscles, the more those fibers will break down. During that process, a protein called myoglobin, as well as various electrolytes and enzymes , are released into the bloodstream and filtered through the liver and kidneys. In extremely high amounts, they can be too much for those filtering and processing organs to handle, and they start to build up.
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