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Local Heat Therapy to Accelerate Recovery After Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage
Kyoungrae Kim1, Jacob C Monroe, Timothy P Gavin
1Department of Health and Kinesiology, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN.
Abstract:
The prolonged impairment in muscle strength, power, and fatigue resistance after eccentric exercise has been ascribed to a plethora of mechanisms, including delayed muscle refueling and microvascular and mitochondrial dysfunction. This review explores the hypothesis that local heat therapy hastens functional recovery after strenuous eccentric exercise by facilitating glycogen resynthesis, reversing vascular derangements, augmenting mitochondrial function, and stimulating muscle protein synthesis.
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