What Does Respiration And Circulation Have To Do With Muscle Pain?
Due to our muscle cells metabolic processes and functions, they have a direct relationship with many of the systems of our body. Thus, muscle dysfunction has the ability to directly affect each of these systems of the body. Similarly, each system of the body can affect muscle function. As previously mentioned, when muscle sustains a contraction for a prolonged period of time it can become deprived of blood. It can even compress the vessels that are trying to supply it with blood. Of course, blood carries all the nutrients and oxygen necessary for it to function and it carries away all the wastes and carbon dioxide that it produces. If these wastes build up, it can create a ‘toxic’ environment within these muscles (which is why our body gets rid of them as wastes). This, coupled with the diminished supply of oxygen and nutrients, creates an ‘ischemic’ environment for the muscle resulting in pain. This is similar to a heart attack (also a muscle therefore acting and reacting the same), h
