hey everybody it's Doctor Jo, and today I'm going to talk about muscle soreness
and ways to relieve it. so let's get started.
So all of you have probably heard of muscle soreness in general. the technical term
is DOMs which is a delayed onset of muscle soreness. and so if you've ever
over worked out, you really know what muscle soreness and that delayed onset
of muscle soreness is all about. a lot of times with DOMs, you don't feel it until
the first 24 or 48 hours, and a lot of times when you overdo it more, it takes a
little bit longer to set in. but you know what it feels like. it's kind of like "oh
my goodness, I did way too much." and the the tough
part of that is sometimes you don't feel like you're doing too much, and then you
feel it later. so that DOMs, delayed onset of muscle soreness, is basically
you're just doing little micro tears in the muscle and this is actually a good
thing. this is how you build muscle, but sometimes if you do too much those micro
fiber tears are a little bit bigger, and it just takes longer to recover and
it's really sore. so a great way to help get rid of muscle soreness is to
use kind of a massager or vibration kind of therapy, and that really helps relax
those muscles and helps them recover. and so the folks at massage therapy concept
sent me their cordless handheld massager. and so this is a really really cool
piece of equipment because it has a bunch of different knobs that you can
use to get different settings and use it in different places. the big thing when
you get this is to make sure there's a there's a little piece right here where
you charge it, and take that out otherwise this doesn't work. but it's
really cool. it's a nice solid equipment that you can use and it is
cordless. so a lot of times you know things that are cordless that are not super
powerful, but this is a really good powerful massager. and when you have that
muscle soreness, that tightness because everything's kind of tightened up
because it's hurting, doing massage on it with the vibration type therapy is
really really helpful. so it comes with seven seven different attachments that
you can use, and it has a whole bunch of different ways that you can use it. so
the first one is just the air-cushion. and this does a really
good job of knee, wrists, ankles, in the joint areas, and so that's why it's kind
of an air cushion. so if you're going over a joint, sometimes if you've ever
used a massager over joint it kind of bumps over, but the air cushion does a
really good job of not doing that. and so they just pop on really easily. you can
see that that is it's easy to use. the next one is the point attachment, and
this one's a little bit more for something like reflexology on the foot
or acupuncture type things. so if you've got like a trigger point in there this
does a really good job of oops getting to that spot and making it
really kind of relax with that massage. then you also have the six head
attachment which is basically kind of for the back the thighs a more general
area. and you can see these little knobs here they've got some little pressure
spots and so it does a really good job of just kind of relaxing those bigger
areas and it does great. and they also have a scalp attachment. so if you have
you know some some kind of pain some tension going on and you really want to
get over like the head area, you can see these little pieces there they're kind
of soft, so it doesn't get caught up in your hair and it's really it's nice and
relaxing as well. they also have just a general body one. and this one like you
do it directly on the skin and you put some gel on it to make it nice and
smooth. so it kind of gets the whole body. and then there's also a facial one. same
thing you'd want to use some facial cream or something for this one but you
know a lot of times just kind of getting in this area maybe in the jaw area and
things when you have some tension this helps relax it as well, and then the
final one is their forehead attachment. not forehead, foreheads. and what it is
really great for is you can see there's a little space in between. so like the
back going down the back so then it's not right on your spine, but it gets
those muscles around and so it's really nice because you have all these
different options, they're really easy just to put on and then take back off. so
if you want to do different spots and then you can see here where you can
adjust it. so it does a really good job again of these tight muscles this muscle
soreness getting those the DOMs out of there, and so you can see here you just
turn it on and you you can start off slow. if I was just
kind of going in here kind of working it around and then you can even take it all
the way up where it gets a little bit higher. and so it's you know almost like
somebody's giving you a massage so it's a nice way to be able to massage
yourself. and then as you can see with a nice handle you can go you know all the
way around in your back and stuff you can kind of turn it this way and get the
area. so it has a nice long handle where you can get a lot of different areas
over your body without having to reach really hard and move your body and hurt
it. so if you're interested in purchasing the cordless handheld massager make sure
and click on the link up there. so after you kind of massage everything out, get
that good vibration to make those muscles relax a little bit, you want to
do gentle stretches. sometimes it's tough because when those muscles are tight, it
hurts a little bit. a lot of times especially the calves when they get
really tight, it's really important to gently stretch it out. you're not trying
to crank on the muscles, but you want to stretch them out because once you get
them to relax again with you know that massage therapy, you want to lengthen
back out those muscles because with those little micro tears in there, if it
stays tight and they heal in that position, then it sometimes causes
problems. so you want you don't want to force the stretch, but you want a nice
gentle stretch to kind of lay back out those muscle fibers. so when they heal
they're nice and flat and they're not up like that. that causes problems, so just
some gentle stretches. if you have a specific area, make sure and check out
some of my other videos because I've got all of the different body parts to be
able to stretch those out. also what's super important is to drink plenty of water
after you've got that muscle soreness. you know you want to keep your body
hydrated. a lot of times all the you know the fluid goes in to kind of help
protect the area, so sometimes you feel very dehydrated. so if you're drinking
plenty of water and throughout the day not just gulping it down at one time, but
make sure you're spreading it out that really helps with that muscle soreness
as well. and then the final one is really just to get good sleep. get some plenty
of sleep because our body's truly heal when we're sleeping. that's when all
those little cells go in and take all the bad cells out and then put all the
new cells back in. so if you're getting good a good night's sleep, that's really
going to help the healing process. so make sure and follow
all those steps. that that DOMs is sometimes really painful, it's not the
worst thing in the world, but you really need to do all those things to help make
sure that you're healing that muscle how it's supposed to, and it's just not going
to stay knotted up. so if you're interested in purchasing the cordless
handheld massager, make sure and click on the link up there. and don't forget to
subscribe by clicking down there. and remember, be safe, have fun, and I hope you
feel better soon.