Light concentric exercise has a temporarily analgesic effect on delayed-onset muscle soreness, but no effect on recovery from eccentric exercise

Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 126-134

  Zainuddin, Zainal ^a,b   Sacco, Paul ^a,c   Newton, Mike ^a   Nosaka, Kazunori ^a  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITI TEKNOLOGI MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Creatine kinase; Muscle soreness; Muscle strength; Muscle tenderness; Range of motion

Indexed keywords

CREATINE KINASE; LACTIC ACID;

ADAPTATION; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; CASE CONTROL STUDY; ELBOW; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INJURY; JOINT CHARACTERISTICS AND FUNCTIONS; MALE; METABOLISM; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; PAIN; PHYSICAL EDUCATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ADAPTATION, PHYSIOLOGICAL; ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CREATINE KINASE; ELBOW JOINT; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; LACTIC ACID; MALE; MUSCLE CONTRACTION; MUSCLE FATIGUE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PAIN; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; RANGE OF MOTION, ARTICULAR;

EID: 33744974067     PISSN: 17155312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/h05-010     Document Type: Article

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