How to recover from muscle pain during the midst of a multi-day hiking?

plumb_pete

When I go on for a multi-day hiking ( say, 7 or 8 days), my leg muscle will get painful in the middle of the hiking ( say, at the 4th day). Usually the muscle pain will take 5 days to heal, but I still have a lot more hiking days in front of me, so I can't take rest! And neither I can do post-hike recovery like massage etc in the middle of sparse-populated mountain. When going for a multi-day hiking, what I can do to recover from muscle pain,...

Originally asked by Graviton on Stack Exchange (outdoors) (CC BY-SA 4.0).

uphilltech

Great question — answering as the UphillTech team:

First, lets talk briefly about the underlying issue, before addressing your specific question: If you get serious muscle pain (taking 5 days to go away is serious), you should adjust your hiking. Apart from the general measures, like adjusting distances and trying to get weight off your pack, for longer hikes like this you also need to think about rest days. In youth mountaineering courses I was taught a concept that's mainly geared towards injury prevention which loosely translates to "mid-week-low". It is pretty well observable, that in the middle of a longer trip there is an over-proportional decrease in the general disposition on that day, which also increases injury risk on it. If you...

Full answer by imsodin: https://outdoors.stackexchange.com/a/19796 (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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