What Causes Muscle Fatigue?

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Muscle fatigue is usually acute (short-term) and reversible. It can also be chronic (long-term). How long muscle fatigue lasts depends on the cause health.  

Acute

Muscle fatigue is a common short-term side effect of exercise. สมัคร UFABET  It occurs when one or more body systems that aid muscle contraction cannot meet the supply and demand. These systems include your nervous, vascular (blood vessels), electrical, and energy systems.

You may be more prone if you are new to exercise after being inactive or exercising a muscle that’s injured or newly recovered. Can build up over multiple workout sessions if you do not give your body enough time to recover in between. This is called overtraining.

Short-term is different from delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS). DOMS is the muscle tenderness and pain you feel 12-24 hours after a strenuous workout or particular movement you do not normally do. It’s a common side effect of a repair response to the micro-damage of your muscles that happens during exercise. DOMS is usually at its worst within one to three days and gone within one week.

Chronic

Long-lasting muscle fatigue can result from disease, aging, and immobility. Chronic muscle fatigue is a symptom of the following conditions:2

  • Arthritis
  • Chronic kidney failure (CKD)
  • Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)
  • COVID-19
  • Heart failure
  • Multiple sclerosis (MS)
  • Muscular dystrophies, or a group of genetic diseases that cause progressive muscle weakness

Several factors affect how develops in these conditions. Muscle loss is usually involved. Chronic inflammation in conditions like arthritis and COPD leads to the wasting of muscles and, in turn, muscle fatigue.

Muscle loss that happens with age, or sarcopenia, can also lead. Muscle can also waste away and become fatigued after you become immobile