Chronic Pain

Muscle pain is often caused by chronic muscle tension. This tension cycle can develop early in life, sometimes as a result of unresolved childhood trauma.

Anxious children will often respond to stress by tightening certain muscles, such as their chest or abdomen. The muscles do not relax even after the crisis is over. Over a period of years, the chronic tension cycle develops because these muscles never have a chance to recover.

Here’s how the chronic tension cycle works in your body:

The chronically tense muscle spasms and reduces blood flow to itself.
Waste products, such as lactic acid, build up in the muscle, which causes more spasms.
The spasmed muscle causes reduces blood flow, and the cycle repeats. The chronically tense muscle can affect the blood and/or nerve flow to itself and neighboring tissues. This puts extra stress on the joints.
As an example, excess tension in the chest or abdomen can lead to seemingly unrelated pain or numbness in the arms and legs.

Because the muscle becomes locked in a tense state, the cycle of spasm, reduced blood flow, pressure and buildup of waste products can continue over many years.

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