1. Exercise that involves stretching a muscle while active cause microscopic areas of damage, delayed onset muscle soreness and adaptation to withstand subsequent similar exercise. 2. Longer muscle lengths are associated with greater damage and recent animal experiments show that it is the length relative to optimum that determines the damage. 3. In humans, walking down stairs, taking two at a ...

OBJECTIVE To pilot a model for determining whether a homoeopathic medicine is superior to placebo for delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS). DESIGN Randomised double blind placebo controlled trial. SETTING Physiotherapy department of a homoeopathic hospital. SUBJECTS Sixty eight healthy volunteers (average age 30; 41% men) undertook a 10 minute period of bench stepping carrying a small wei...

The aim of this study was to assess the effects of a single session of cold or thermoneutral water immersion after a one-off match on muscular dysfunction and damage in soccer players. Twenty-male soccer players completed one match and were randomly divided into cryotherapy (10 min cold water immersion, 10°C, n = 10) and thermoneutral (10 min thermoneutral water immersion, 35°C, n = 10) groups....

Background: Our aims were to investigate the time-course effects of a futsal match on performance, oxidative stress, and muscle damage markers, as well inflammatory antioxidant responses during 6-day post-match period. Methods: Thirty-four female high-level players assessed several inflammation, subjective soreness, rate perceived exertion, performance tests before match, immediately after, 24 ...

THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN OMEGA-3 FATTY ACID INTAKE AND MUSCLE SORENESS IN COLLEGIATE ROWERS Background: Intense exercise may result in delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS), which is worsened with unaccustomed eccentric exercise, and is considered a major contributing factor to poor athletic performance. DOMS-related muscular inflammation appears to be especially prevalent in college-aged athlet...

The purpose of this study was to determine if rating of perceived exertion correlated with perceived muscle soreness during delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) in female runners. This study examined the pre and post running economy measures and perceived muscle soreness before and after a 30-min downhill run (DHR) at -15% grade and 70% of the subjects predetermined maximum oxygen uptake (VO2 p...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effects of low intensity laser (660nm), on the surae triceps muscle fatigue and power, during vertical jump in sedentary individuals, in addition to delayed onset muscle soreness. METHODS We included 22 sedentary volunteers in the study, who were divided into three groups: G1 (n=8) without performing low intensity laser (control); G2 (n=7) subjected to 6 days of l...

background: inflammation and pain induced by delayed onset muscle soreness (doms) as a result of eccentric exercise (ee) or unaccustomed activity cause some difficulties in exercise for athletes. the purpose of this study was to survey the effect of ginger extract on biochemical and functional symptom of delayed onset muscle soreness.   methods : in a quasi-experimental study, 36 healthy female...

CONTEXT Delayed-onset muscle soreness (DOMS) describes muscle pain and tenderness that typically develop several hours postexercise and consist of predominantly eccentric muscle actions, especially if the exercise is unfamiliar. Although DOMS is likely a symptom of eccentric-exercise-induced muscle damage, it does not necessarily reflect muscle damage. Some prophylactic or therapeutic modalitie...