How to get rid of muscle tension during VSD

Treating neurosis with exercise

We have already said that neurosis is a consequence of experienced psychological trauma and stress. But what is the nature of stress? This is the body's reaction to an atypical situation. In fact, we really need this mechanism. In stressful circumstances, we experience a surge of physical energy and adrenaline. Our body is ready to escape or defend. But if we remain in such a tense state constantly, it will do a lot of harm.

That is why physical education for neuroses is a very effective treatment, a recipe for a healthy life. Gymnastics and yoga help release the energy that is seething inside us and relieve physical stress. You can do the exercises yourself at home. You should not choose intricate and complex sports complexes, because your goal is not to pump up muscles or lose weight, but to achieve physical relaxation.

Preference should be given to stretching exercises. Try to smoothly pull all muscle groups alternately, starting from the neck and ending with the limbs. To finish, stand on your toes, extend your arms up above your head, palms together, and give your entire body a good stretch.

The following exercise helps to relax all the muscles: stand straight, starting from the neck, smoothly bend forward, twisting the spine, while keeping your arms relaxed; when your palms touch the floor, step with your hands, go to the plank, then bend well, moving your head back, stay in this position for a few seconds; then, keeping your legs straight, lift your pelvis up, bend your back, keep your arms straight; step with your hands in the opposite direction and smoothly return to the starting position, while slowly unwinding your spine.

Do this exercise several times and you will immediately feel relaxed.

As an alternative, you can go to the gym, swimming pool, or sign up for a fitness or athletics section. Yoga and gymnastics also help to relax. You can choose your preferred type of activity yourself. Remember that it is best to free yourself from negativity right away. You can perform simple exercises, such as squats or bends, anywhere – even at work. It is important to be able to relax when you need it, and not be embarrassed by what others think. This is a surefire recipe for maintaining a balanced nervous system. In addition, standard gymnastics will help you keep yourself in shape and on a physical level: get rid of excess weight, gain body flexibility. Physiotherapy can also be used for physical relaxation: various warm-ups, massage, hydrotherapy, etc. Physiotherapy, like physical education, does not allow tension to accumulate, which significantly reduces neurotic symptoms.

At any time, to calm down and saturate the body with oxygen, you can perform useful breathing exercises. Here are the simplest but most effective exercises:

take any comfortable position that avoids muscle tension, inhale slowly and as deeply as possible, with your lungs full, hold your breath for 5 seconds, then exhale slowly, try to keep your exhalations longer than your inhalations, breathe for 30 seconds;
in the lotus position or other comfortable position (most importantly with a straight back), for a minute, take frequent and rapid exhalations through your nose, as if you want to blow a bead out of your nose.

Try it! There is no guarantee that you will be able to do the exercises the first time, but practice will certainly give results. You can easily master it yourself.

Psychotherapy for neuroses will be a wonderful addition to traditional methods. Sessions with a specialist will help you find out the cause of the problem and cure it on a psychological level forever. And folk methods and techniques will lead to calmness and teach you to relax. Treatment using multiple methods is the best solution.

Tension in the legs

Since the legs are constantly under tension, spasms and muscle cramps in them occur very often.

First of all, strain your feet (left-handers start with the left), then rise higher: shins, thighs, buttocks. Before starting such therapy, the patient puts on comfortable clothes and shoes that do not restrict movement, and takes a lying or sitting position. The muscles are very tense.

Treatment of neurosis with herbs

This remedy belongs to alternative medicine. However, its effectiveness does not suffer. Our ancestors have used herbs for many centuries to calm down during times of stress or tone up their bodies in moments of fatigue and depression. Melissa, chamomile, motherwort, St. John's wort, hawthorn - we all know these names from childhood.

Herbs help cure various forms of neurosis: hysterical, obsessive-compulsive neurosis, neurasthenia.

In order to fall asleep quickly, it is recommended to take infusions of sedative herbs in the evening. St. John's wort, lemon balm, and valerian are perfect. And in order to cheer up after waking up and recharge your batteries for the day, it is recommended to take herbs such as radiola or lemongrass. These are proven folk methods.

You can prepare a decoction by pouring a tablespoon of herbs into a liter of boiling water, letting it brew, straining - the recipe is very simple. You can also prepare teas with the addition of various herbs.

Here is a simple recipe for a remedy that will help get rid of irritability:

St. John's wort – 1 tsp. Passionflower – 0.5 tsp. Melissa – 0.5 tsp. Lavender (flowers) - on the tip of a knife.

This tea is very tasty, as lemon balm gives it a subtle minty aroma and taste. It is also incredibly useful - the product will help strengthen the nervous system. After all, St. John's wort, which is included in the recipe, is considered one of the most effective natural antidepressants, which, at the same time, does not suppress the functions of the nervous system, unlike some tablets. Moreover, St. John's wort has a general strengthening effect on the body, as it can improve cellular respiration.

Lavender is also wonderfully calming and helps get rid of anxiety. Melissa has a good effect on the nervous system and normalizes the increased heart rate. Tea will help you achieve relaxation and relieve tension after a difficult day.

However, this treatment is not suitable for everyone. It is necessary to take into account that such a remedy as herbs, even such ordinary ones as lemon balm, chamomile or St. John's wort, also have contraindications. For example, the latter increases sensitivity to ultraviolet radiation, so those who choose this treatment are not recommended to spend much time in the sun. Visiting a solarium is also not advisable. St. John's wort is contraindicated during pregnancy and hypertension. Excessive dosage of the herb may cause stomach pain. It is also worth noting that St. John's wort can weaken the effect of birth control pills, as well as reduce potency in men. This happens with prolonged use.

And lemon balm, although it is good for the heart, is very calming, but in an overdose it can cause lethargy or drowsiness. Therefore, when choosing a herb for treatment, consult a doctor who will help you choose a herb that is effective for your specific case. The doctor will take into account the characteristics of the body and prescribe herbs that can cure the disease, taking into account all their characteristics,

Now let's look at other methods and techniques that will help you cope with neurotic disorders on your own. I use a wide variety of means, methods and techniques. Acupuncture, hirudotherapy, yoga, meditation are also effective ways to cure a neurotic disorder.

Let's look at them separately.

Performing basic breathing exercises

To generally improve the well-being of patients, the following exercises are used for VSD:

Rhythmic nasal breathing. You need to start with smooth inhalations and exhalations, performed with a relaxed body. After this, breathing is carried out alternately through the left and right nostrils. Next, inhalations should be made in jerks, and exhalations should be rhythmic and through the mouth.
Chest breathing. When the abdominal area is motionless, it is necessary to inhale air through the nose, while achieving maximum expansion of the chest. This is followed by a strong exhalation, which should be accompanied by a feeling of complete liberation of oxygen from the lungs.
Abdominal breathing. Inhalation is carried out through the nose, while trying to stick out the stomach, leaving the sternum area motionless. Exhalation occurs with parallel retraction of the abdomen. Exhaling through your mouth will help you achieve calm.
Full breath. Mixed type exercise. Performed at the last stage of classes. Involves a deep, measured breath, during which all the above-described departments are involved.

Panic attacks cause severe psychological stress. Due to the inability of most patients to overcome sudden emotions, a paper bag can be used to normalize respiratory function. Within a few minutes, this procedure allows the patient to completely calm down.

Treatment of neurosis using oriental practices: acupuncture, hirudotherapy

Treatment of neurosis includes a wide variety of means, methods and techniques. Acupuncture, herudotherapy, yoga, meditation are also effective ways to cure a neurotic disorder. Let's look at them separately.

Acupuncture, like hirudotherapy (treatment with leeches), has a tonic and sedative effect on the body. Allows you to restore the nervous system. Moreover, regular acupuncture helps normalize the patient’s emotional state, relieve tension, and has an antidepressant effect.

It is worth noting that most often acupuncture and hirudotherapy are used to combat somatic and mental disorders. Its healing effects are noticeable throughout the body. But we urge you not to perform acupuncture yourself at home. Hirudotherapy is also a treatment method that is not suitable for self-administration. Only a specialist who has studied these techniques can perform the procedure so that it produces a healing effect. Acupuncture and hirudotherapy are very important procedures. But with the right approach, this is the right recipe on the path to psychological well-being, which will help you get rid of the negative symptoms of neurosis and relax after a hard day at work. You can’t just read online about how to do acupuncture and start healing. Hirudotherapy is carried out using special leeches (medical). It is worth noting that hirudotherapy helps to get rid of not only neurosis, but also toxins. Hirudotherapy is completely safe for health, infection is excluded if you contact a real professional who knows how to treat with leeches.

Is muscle twitching dangerous?

Manifestations of VSD are generally not considered life-threatening. Twitching muscles will not kill the patient and will not chain him to bed. But this does not mean that you need to fold your sails and go with the flow. First, you need to make sure that your muscles are being affected by VSD and not some concomitant disease. Of course, VSD specialists try to get to the bottom of every fallen eyelash, and often all logic drowns under the pressure of medical information.

But you should repeat to yourself more often: if symptoms arise from time to time, without progressing or being complicated by new pathological conditions, then in 99% of cases this is another manifestation of VSD.

Why do muscles twitch during VSD? The thing is that a “stunned” central nervous system is capable of producing not only tremors, adrenaline and frozen limbs. It also confuses the brain, turning off some of its functions, such as thermoregulation. It is not surprising that sometimes chaos begins in the transmission of nerve impulses going to the muscles.

And sometimes VSD worsens blood circulation so much that the muscles begin to experience spasms and twitch from poor “nutrition.” Osteochondrosis - a faithful friend of VSD - often becomes the main cause of twitching muscles, and the patient can get by with just one course of massage to regain peace and sleep.

Making the right decision

How to cope with neurosis and depression? To do this, you will need to find a way out of what may seem to the patient to be a dead end situation. A person who is overcome by neurosis is able to think about solving the problem that has arisen, while creating dozens of possible answers. Moreover, the more there are, the more irritated the patient becomes, the more lost he becomes and the more afraid he is of making the wrong choice.

In this case, psychologists recommend using a simple method. A person should take a blank piece of paper and, making himself comfortable, divide it into three columns. The first of these is intended to describe the consequences that may occur if the problem is ignored. The second column should reflect situations that were similar to the current one and the progress of getting rid of them. The third is intended as an option to eliminate the currently existing problem.

How to Calm the Nervous System with Autogenic Training

The method of acquiring mental balance using a certain number of self-hypnosis techniques is called auto-training. Every person can inspire himself with anything, including a state of moral peace. Many people need auto-training to calm the nervous system due to exposure to various stressful circumstances. The method helps restore the balance of biochemical processes in the body. Sometimes you can change character traits, and in some cases, get rid of bad habits. It’s easy to learn auto-training, the main thing is to believe in yourself.

Why do muscles twitch?

Sometimes self-correction of lifestyle can give a person back control over his muscles without any medications or psychological techniques.

If muscles twitch during VSD, then the culprit may be:

Frequent stress, tension at work and at home;
Physical/mental fatigue;
Poor circulation, osteochondrosis;
A banal lack of potassium in the body;
Obsession with problems and phobias, resentment, anxiety;
Neuralgia, pinched nerves;

Against the background of constant neurosis, the patient may develop a primary nervous (psychogenic) tic: periodic, strange twitching of certain muscles that does not go away during the day, but stops when the patient sleeps.

A tic differs from stress twitching in that the patient can clearly name in which muscles the disturbances occur. While under severe stress or dysfunction of nerve impulses, muscles throughout the body twitch chaotically. If you suspect a tic, you need to visit a neurologist, since such a disease cannot be cured or suppressed on your own.

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So, you felt or realized that you need to CALM DOWN.

quick and simple calming options (this will prepare you for longer, deeper calming if needed):

Count to 10 (preferably with your eyes closed). You can also count in reverse order.

Imagine an image that calms you down. This could be a person dear to you, a child, a beautiful animal, a calm and serene place. The options are unlimited.

Make a “relaxation mask” - relax all the muscles of your face.

Next, choose what suits you in the situation around you:

Text for reassurance.

Take a comfortable position. Close your eyes. Breathe evenly and calmly.

Imagine that you are in a mountain clearing with an incredibly beautiful view: distant peaks covered with pine needles, gentle slopes, dozens of small mountain streams uniting at the foot into a crystal-clear lake. It reflects the blue skies and snow-white clouds like a mirror.

You deeply and with pleasure inhale the light, transparent mountain air. It fills the lungs and, together with the blood, penetrates every cell of your body. You feel how lightness and purity fill you. Feel the smell of young fresh grass. You touch it with your hands – it’s juicy, bright green.

But a bright forest bird flew past and sat on a branch of a bush growing nearby with unknown berries. This is her world, her home. Just like yours. Here you feel confident and safe. You are calm, balanced, and your thoughts are clear and precise. You know what you should do, where you should move next.

Take a deep breath and open your eyes.

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Causes of muscle disturbance

Why do people experience muscle spasms, cramps, and tics? This could be due to a number of reasons:

constantly being under stress, both at home and at work;
mental or physical fatigue;
disturbances of normal blood flow;
presence of osteochondrosis;
potassium deficiency;
constant thinking about disturbing events, the presence of phobias and fears;
pinched nerve endings;
neurological pathologies.

When the impulse passes through the nerve endings, this leads to involuntary muscle contractions, as well as a feeling of muscle strain during VSD.

Against this background, a person may suffer from different types of limb tension:

periodic;
permanent;
night;
all or individual muscle groups.

The causes of muscle tension may lie in the presence of a banal tic. In this case, the person clearly points to the muscle group in which the excitement occurs. If such a pathology is present, you should immediately seek advice from a neurologist.

Relaxing massage

How to get rid of muscle hypertonicity from panic attacks and VSD? It is quite possible to do this yourself, or you can seek professional help. Let's consider both options. I would like to say right away that you will have to practice relaxing your body for a long time and regularly.

Any method below should be prescribed by a specialist after consultation.

So, what therapeutic methods help relieve muscle spasms:

Massage. Only a professional massage therapist can properly influence the muscles of the body, relieving tension and spasms. Otherwise, the problem may get worse.
Osteopathy. This is an area of alternative medicine that involves diagnosing and treating disorders of the anatomical and physiological interaction of individual organs and parts of the patient’s body. The procedure is aimed at restoring functions in the body by eliminating the causes of pain and internal imbalance.
Acupuncture. An ancient technique of Chinese traditional medicine, using special needles through specific points on the body by inserting them into these points and manipulating them.
Sharko's shower. Impact hydrotherapy, which is a massage of certain areas of the body using alternating powerful jets of hot and cold water. Not only relaxes muscles, but also strengthens blood vessels.
Electrophoresis. A physiotherapeutic electrotherapy procedure used to relieve spasms from certain muscles. In combination with medications, it helps relieve not only hypertension, but also inflammation and pain.

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Many VSD workers who go to doctors are prescribed sedative medications. Such pills really help to calm down, reduce anxiety, stop panic attacks, and help with insomnia. While taking them, a person feels more relaxed.

But do such medications relieve muscle tension? No, they do not completely remove hypertonicity, but rather do not allow new blocks to accumulate. Those “charges” that are stuck in the body cannot be released so easily with the help of pills alone.

You can only slightly improve your condition, and only while taking medication. Therefore, you should not seriously rely on sedative, tranquilizing and antidepressant pills. If a doctor you trust has prescribed it, then it’s worth drinking. But it is better to treat such drugs as auxiliary ones.

A relaxing back massage for men or women should be performed by a professional massage therapist. He will be able to relieve tension and muscle spasms. After a professional massage, blood circulation will improve, pain and stiffness will go away.

Experts recommend at least four massage sessions; if possible, they should be spread out over six weeks. It is worth monitoring your health; if the massage done does not bring results, you need to use another technique.

The patient lies down on a flat surface, the back massage for a guy or girl begins with light strokes from bottom to top along the back along the spine. When moving up, the efforts of the hands should be slightly stronger than when moving down.

In the waist area, the hands should slide freely, smoothing the muscles in the direction from the waist to the neck. To do this, you can apply a few drops of massage oil to your hands. You need to grab 5 cm on each side along the line of the spine. Smoothing can be alternated with light pressure.

You need to massage the neck and shoulder area very carefully. The movements should resemble the hands of a sculpture when sculpting. Gradually the intensity increases, you need to knead your shoulders with both hands, making effort. The area of the shoulder blades is massaged with circular movements of the palms. Using your fingertips, you need to feel all the muscles around the shoulder blades.

To finally understand how to do a relaxing back massage, you need to complete the appropriate courses. A training video will help you learn a lot of new things. After viewing it, you can learn the basic techniques of stroking, pinching, and stretching the skin during massage. Non-professional massage can also bring relief from osteochondrosis and muscle spasms.

Massage has a number of contraindications, so consultation with your doctor is necessary. And any methods that relax muscles are not as harmless as they seem. It is better to visit a doctor first, get examined, and not self-medicate.

Recommendations for relaxation

Regardless of which method you choose, follow some tips.

Normal breathing actions and physical movements can be done for 1-2 minutes in any place - at work, at home, in line at the store. Take a break from your computer or phone right now, close your eyes, take a deep breath as you raise your arms, and exhale as you quickly lower them. Feel how the fatigue leaves you with the air, all the tension falls off your shoulders. Now stretch your hands, elbow joints and shoulders with rotational movements, twist your back from side to side, shake your limbs. In these couple of minutes you will already feel light.

Activity therapy

How to cope with panic neurosis? A person prone to the manifestation of the “disease of doubt” begins to experience stress more and more often. He constantly worries and exaggerates the situation. In this state, adrenaline and norepinephrine begin to enter his blood. The body responds to such an effect by dilating the pupils, constricting blood vessels, increasing the concentration of glucose in the blood, as well as a rapid heartbeat. That is why training in sports and gyms will help get rid of neurosis. When boxing a punching bag, squeezing an expander, etc., the body tenses and expends all its strength.

What can you advise women who turn to a specialist with the following request: “Help cope with neurosis”? If training in the gym cannot be carried out due to lack of time or for some other reason, then in this case it is recommended to wash the floors in the house, jump, run, ride a bicycle, or simply fold a pillow and beat it. Swimming in the pool will also be of great help in eliminating neurosis.