6 Hidden Muscles That Are Causing You Pain

The deal with hidden muscle pain

Sore and not sure why? Your pain may be rooted in problems with unsung and underlying muscles you’ve probably never heard of. “Minor muscles enable large muscles to do their job,” says Bryan Heiderscheit, PhD, PT, a professor of orthopedics & rehabilitation at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. “When the small ones aren’t working properly, it can lead to injury or pain.” That means that rehabilitating those small muscles can lead to overall muscle pain relief. There’s no simple way to know yourself which muscle is responsible for your achiness; a physical therapist or doctor can evaluate form, pain (and use other diagnostics, like MRI, of course, to pinpoint an issue). But strengthening and stretching these minor-league muscles is a big part of a conservative approaches to pain management, so the following exercises will likely help. Here, some common aches and how to avoid them by giving these minor muscles some TLC.

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