What should I do if I have lower abdominal pain after exercise?

Many people will experience lower abdominal pain after running. The editor also experienced this during physical examinations. It was really painful. So why does the lower abdomen hurt after exercise? In fact, it may be because we seldom exercise in normal times, and exercising all of a sudden may cause it. Next, let the editor introduce to you the relevant issues about lower abdominal pain after exercise.

Exercise can sometimes cause pain in the liver and spleen area, which often occurs during long-distance or middle-distance running with excessive intensity. The reasons are as follows.

If it occurs in the early stages of exercise, the reasons are mostly insufficient warm-up exercises, starting too fast, the activity of visceral organs not adapting to the exercise organs, and increasing the intensity of exercise when the function of visceral organs has not yet increased to the expected level of activity; especially if the myocardial contraction is poor, it will cause weak pulsation, and a large amount of inferior vena cava blood will be blocked from returning to the heart, and a large amount of blood will accumulate in the abdominal cavity, liver and spleen. The portal vein of the liver has no venous valves, and both ends of the portal vein are connected to capillaries. This anatomical structure feature can not only cause blood reflux in the liver, but also cause blood congestion and swelling of the liver and spleen, which will increase portal vein pressure and involve the liver and spleen capsule to cause pain or distension.

The second cause that occurs in the early stages of exercise is respiratory rhythm disturbance. During strenuous exercise, breathing becomes uneven and unrhythmic, and breathing becomes shallow and too frequent, causing respiratory muscle fatigue and even spasm. Diaphragm spasm itself can cause pain. Respiratory muscle fatigue and spasm weaken the "massage" effect on the liver. At the same time, shallow breathing and high intrathoracic pressure can also hinder the return of the inferior vena cava, and cause congestive enlargement of the liver and spleen or tension of the liver and spleen capsules, causing pain. The tension and pulling of the ligaments that suspend the liver and spleen can also cause pain, which often occurs in the middle and late stages of exercise.

Recently, there was a report saying that pain in the liver area during exercise without congestion of the liver and spleen is because during intense exercise, glycogen consumption increases, heat release increases sharply, local temperature rises significantly, liver cells swell, friction with the diaphragm increases, and nerves are stimulated, causing pain.

Rectus abdominis spasm

It often occurs after strenuous exercise and the incidence is also high in summer. This symptom is easy to diagnose because the location of the spasm is superficial and the rectus abdominis muscle can be felt by hand. It is mainly caused by the loss of water and salt through sweating during exercise, water and salt metabolism disorders, and fatigue.

After reading the above situations about lower abdominal pain after exercise, do you understand what you want to know? In fact, lower abdominal pain after exercise is a situation that many people will experience. After reading the above reasons, do you understand it better? So when you encounter this situation in the future, don’t panic.