Murry,
I haven't really looked into the ethical side of this topic in
depth. It was just that I was discussing the idea to a group of classmates
and assumed that it would unethical to deliberately induce muscle soreness.
I wanted to get an opinion before taking it further. However I find your
advice encouraging. I'm going to see my tutor next week to try and develop
a more concrete idea. I would like to base my project around the effect of
stretching and light exercise on the reduction of DOMS symptoms. Much of
the literature has looked the effect of stretching on muscles and stated
that in there is not a direct relationship between stretching and the
reduction of injury. More so that it enhances the performance of a muscle.
Injury is said to be related to fatigue, therefore if stretching enhances
performance does it mean that it delays the onset of fatigue?
Cheers for your reply!
Ade
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> Ade:
> I would like to hear what problems you have had with regard to
> medical ethics. There have been many protocols for initiating
> muscle soreness in the past that do not have long-term effects,
> and have been approved at an institutional level. Our eccentric
> protocols for the lower extremity are very likely to give
> soreness for several days following. Generally, we ensure that
> the subject is well informed, has the demonstrated exercise
> capacity, and that the research question has a chance of
> providing useful information. Also, we make sure that the athlete
> does not have a competition or event scheduled in the following
> week. As a mountaineer and runner, I
> would say that most post-exercise muscle soreness protocols are
> about as challenging as a good day in the hills. Compared to
> other, more invasive studies (surgery, drugs...) post-exercise
> muscle soreness is of little consequence.
>
> Murray
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> >
> >
> > I am a 2nd yr Physiotherapy student currently working to produce a third
> > year research project idea. To present I have been reading about
> 'Delayed
> > onset muscle soreness', and the effects stretching has on muscles. I
> find
> > the subjects very interesting and would like to use this for my
> > dissertation, however any ideas I have come up with have encountered
> > problems on the grounds of medical ethics, regarding the method - Has
> anyone
> > researched this area before? - any comments or suggestions would be much
> > appreciated.
> >
> > Ade Wagstaff
> >
>
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