You can know if it's muscle pain or organ pain by how intense the pain is and the location the pain is coming from.
Muscle pain or visceral pain is constant and often involves superficial injuries.
Visceral pain from organs and blood vessels is vague and often feels like a deep squeeze, pressure, or aching.
Muscle pain and pain in the bones and soft tissues is called somatic pain and pain that comes from the internal organs and blood vessels is called Visceral pain.
Somatic pain or pain in the muscles, bones or soft tissues is more more intense and often easier to locate than visceral pain.
Visceral pain is pain that originates from your blood vessels and internal organs, like your pancreas, heart or lungs.
Somatic pain covers all other bodily tissues (like skin, muscles and bones), except for nerves.
Nerve pain is called neuropathic pain.
The surface of your stomach area may feel tender and inflamed if you have a strained abdominal muscle.
You may also experience sudden sharp pain when moving or contracting your abdominal muscles.
If your muscles are strained, they will feel like a sore or tight ache.
A pulled muscle would not feel hot, tingling, or electric like an irritated nerve root would.
The pain would only subside while you are relaxed and resting, as the tension and spasms are alleviated.
Visceral pain occurs when there is damage or disruption to internal organs and tissues in the pelvis, abdomen, chest or intestines.
Visceral pain is vague, not localized, and often feels like a deep squeeze, pressure or aching feeling.