How Massage helps muscles after exercise

Hot on the heals of recent posts on the cellular effects of exercise, comes this story about how massage reduces pain and accelerates healing after exercise. They note what I wrote about in another post–that anti-inflammatories may reduce muscle growth and healing by blocking inflammation–but point out that massage seems to block inflammation by another route and does not hinder healing. Yeah!

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