IS MASSAGE ACTUALLY BAD FOR YOU AFTER EXERCISE OR AN INJURY?

New Research Raises This Question

I am not sure about this one, so I hope my medical friends will shed some light on this blog article.

A Queen's University research team concludes that massage after exercise does NOT improves circulation to the muscle and does NOT assists in the removal of lactic acid and other waste products.

"This dispels a common belief in the general public about the way in which massage is beneficial," says Kinesiology and Health Studies professor Michael Tschakovsky. "It also dispels that belief among people in the physical therapy profession. All the physical therapy professionals that I have talked to, when asked what massage does, answer that it improves muscle blood flow and helps get rid of lactic acid. Ours is the first study to challenge this and rigorously test its validity."

Kinesiology MSc candidate Vicky Wiltshire and Dr. Tschakovsky set out to discover if this untested hypothesis was true, and their results show that massage actually impairs blood flow to the muscle after exercise, and that it therefore also impairs the removal of lactic acid from muscle after exercise.

Al I know is that massage therapy after an injury has proven to be helpful to many of clients after a car accident, motorcycle crash, workers compensation injury or other personal injury matter. No, not because it feels goodif fact, many of the clients say that the massage itself hurts, but the residual effects make the pain worthwhile.

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