Muscle Pain vs Bone Pain, What's the Difference?

How to distinguish between muscle pain and bone pain and how to deal with it

When the body feels sick, painful, or heavy, we often find it difficult to tell where the source of the problem is. In fact, not a few people directly assume that the body is sick of bone problems without prior examination by a specialist.

However, based on data from PHRM Indonesia for over 25 years, clients often come up with pain in the bones in the knee or back. But when checked, it turns out the problem was in the muscles. This is because the location of the muscle is attached to the bone so that when the pain begins to occur, the pain is difficult to distinguish. So how do you distinguish between bone pain and muscle pain? Let's understand the difference between muscle pain and bone pain further!

A. Difference Between Muscle Pain and Bone Pain

1. Textures and damage

• Muscles are tissues in the body that function as active movements that move bones. When touched, the muscles feel like tight meat. Therefore, injury to muscles can cause the muscle to crack.
• Bones cannot be moved without muscle assistance and when problems occur in the bone can cause bone to break, crumble, or shift.

2. Problems with Function

• The function of the muscle is to move the body so that we can walk, run, jump, lift objects, and do other activities. The muscles also help keep the bones and posture in place. In addition, muscles can generate heat when contracting, which helps keep the body warm while protecting the bone from injury. So, when there's a problem with muscles, it can make it difficult for the body to move so that the body feels sick in a position where the muscles have to work to carry the load.
• Bones serve to support the body and allow us to stand upright. Not only that, the bone is responsible for producing red blood cells, leukocytes, and platelets to store calcium and phosphorus that are important for bone and tooth strength. Bones also serve to protect internal organs such as the brain, heart, lungs, and spinal cord. Bone problems can cause posture changes to disrupt the immune system.

3. Causes of Pain

• Muscle pain is usually caused by muscle use during excessive physical activity, muscle injuries, dehydration affecting electrolyte deficiency, and viral infections.
• Generally, bone pain is caused by more serious problems, such as osteoporosis, bone fractures, and bone cancer.

4. Pain Symptoms

• The symptoms of muscle pain are usually: the appearance of inflammation, swelling, or redness in the skin, reduced movement in the area of pain, the pain can spread to other parts of the body and cause headaches and migraines, the appearing of a feeling of numbness or dizziness in the hands or feet, to the muscles that feel soft when touched.
• Symptoms of bone pain are characterized by loss of height, stooped body posture, unable to move the painful area, bones that have shifted due to a fall or accident so they stick out of place (deformity), lumps in the bones, and fatigue because the bones are worn out. unable to support the body.

5. Pain that arises

• If you experience muscle pain, the pain that arises is aching and cramping, causing a reddish discoloration or swelling of the skin. Typically, muscle pain is more difficult to identify.
•  Meanwhile the pain that arises from bone pain is sharp, stabbing, throbbing and constant. Usually bone pain is rarely accompanied by redness, but it is easier to find the problem point.

B. Tips for Treating Muscle Pain

Your body feels pain and you still can't distinguish muscle pain from bone pain? Calm down, don't worry about mismanagement! Come to PHRM Indonesia for Remedial Massage treatment and treatment consultation. Take care of your muscle health because in this way your bones can support the body optimally. PHRM will check your muscle condition and give you the best treatment! Immediately schedule your arrival and choose the therapist you want. PHRM Indonesia will give you a specialist massage of whole body muscles, without oil, fast, accurate, and without ribs!

Source:

• https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/difference-between-bone-pain-and-muscle-pain
• https://www.ai-care.id/penyakit/nyeri-tulang-vs-nyeri-otot-ini-perbedaannya
• https://www.polarishealthcare.in/post/difference-between-bone-pain-and-muscle-pain
• https://www.freepik.com