The English physiotherapist Diana Newham has published several scientific
articles about muscle soreness after exercise. She has demonstrated that
muscle soreness might be due to muscle fiber injury causing a secondary
inflammation and a delayed onset of muscle pain and soreness the following
days after exercise. She has also demonstrated that muscle soreness appear
more easily after eccentric muscle contractions than after concentric
muscle contractions. Furthermore, it has been demonstrated that this muscle
soreness will be reduced when performing low-intensity concentric exercise.
Therefore, cooling-down exercise could be tried. My experience from sport
is that it may also help with gentle stretching exercises immediately after
the training session.
With regards
Anne Marit Mengshoel
National Hospital, Norway.
At 18:52 16.04.99 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi all,
>Would you have any protocols or suggestions how to manage exercise
>induced
>muscle soreness at home. A friend of mine is a competitive inline
>speed
>skater
>and she's got problems mostly with quads. The soreness after training
>tends
>to
>stay even as long as 4 days. Since it is not my area of expertise I
>could
>not
>offer her anything but icing. Thanks in advance.
>Tom
>
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