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How Massage Heals Sore Muscles
- porter 15y agoYou can also use foam rollers and lacrosse balls to get the same effect while increasing mobility. See http://www.mobilitywod.com/ http://www.mobilitywod.com/ for plenty of video instruction.
- acqq 15y agoThe research paper: Massage Therapy Attenuates Inflammatory Signaling After Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage Justin D. Crane, Daniel I. Ogborn, Colleen Cupido, Simon Melov, Alan Hubbard, Jacqueline M. Bourgeois and Mark A. Tarnopolsky, http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/119/119ra13 http://stm.sciencemag.org/content/4/119/119ra13 An another article about the paper: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/02/03/massage-doesnt-just-feel-good-it-changes-gene-expression-and-reduces-inflammation/ http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2012/02/03/massage...
- friderico 15y agoStudies like these do not seek explanations, which means that they merely serve to entrench existing ideas. For example, the (well-known) ideas that massage reduces soreness, and that soreness equals inflammation. (N.B. I'm not claiming these ideas are wrong.) >They found that massage reduced the production of compounds called cytokines, which play a critical role in inflammation What would be needed is a mechanism for how massage does this. (First you guess. Don't laugh, this is the most important step. Then you compute the consequences... Richard Feynman.) My guess is it works by restoring conscious attention to the relevant limbs and muscles. In which case, it ought to be possible to reproduce the reduction of cytokines, at least partially, by conscious effort alone. The reduction, if any, could of course be measured.