Lactic Acid Doesn’t Cause Muscle Pain

Here is an interesting consideration on a highly repeated verse in the health and fitness world!  Lactic acid doesn’t cause muscle pain. In fact, there’s almost no lactic acid in your muscles!

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The benefits of good posture – Murat Dalkilinç

Animated video worthwhile watching. Has anyone ever told you, “Stand up straight!” or scolded you for slouching at a family dinner? Comments like that might be annoying—but they’re not wrong. Your posture is the foundation for every movement your body makes and can determine how well your body adapts to the stresses on it. Murat Dalkilinç gives the pros of good posture.

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The Remarkable Evolution of the Modern Day Rugby Player

The players at this year’s World Cup are setting new records for physical extremes – but how far have they come and what do they go through?From blistering runs to bludgeoning scrums, with countless shuddering hits in between. The physical extremes reached by players during the opening weekend of the Rugby World Cup have been clear for all to see. Indeed, modern rugby is almost unrecognisable to the game that was played at the inaugural tournament in 1987.

The arrival of the professional era combined with considerable advances in sports science mean that the physical demands of the sport have reached a level that has never been seen before. As a result, players must strive to be bigger, faster and stronger than ever before. So, just how extreme are the expectations placed upon a modern rugby and what must they go through in order to achieve their targets?

Good overview of the changes and demands in modern day rugby players.The players at this year’s World Cup are setting new records for physical extremes – but how far have they come and what do they go through?

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These Tiny Swimming Robots Could Remove Carbon Dioxide From The Oceans

Scientists at the University of California, San Diego, have developed tiny robots that could one day remove carbon dioxide from the oceans, helping to mitigate the effects of climate change. Their proof of concept study was published in the journal Angewandte Chemie.

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Why Do My Muscles Ache The Day After Exercise? | IFLScience

Interesting article by Ken Nosaka, Professor of Exercise and Sports Science, Edith Cowan UniversityThis article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article.

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The Neuroscience of Immortality – The New York Times

New efforts to understand the brain are generating methods that make “mind uploading” seem at least a bit more plausible. Here is a look at how close, and far, we are to each requirement for keeping the brain alive after death.

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Persistent pain

We all feel pain from time to time. When someone injures themselves, specific nerves recognise this as pain, which in turn triggers the body’s repair mechanism. As the problem resolves, the pain tends to improve and usually disappears within 3-6 months. This type of pain could be argued to be beneficial: if it hurts, you are likely to try and avoid doing whatever it is that has caused the pain in the future, so you are less likely to injure yourself in that way again.

Occasionally the pain continues even after tissue healing has finished. When pain continues after this point, it becomes known as persistent (or is sometimes referred to as chronic) pain. This type of pain is not beneficial and is a result of the nerves becoming over-sensitised, which means that a painful response will be triggered much more easily than normal. This can be unpleasant, but doesn’t necessarily mean that you are doing yourself any harm simply by moving. You could think of this as a sensitive car alarm that goes off in error when someone walks past (for more information on how pain works, visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUrKgv43W2c ).

Persistent pain is very common and effects over 14 million people
in the UK alone. It often does not respond to conventional medical interventions and needs a different kind of approach, but there are many things that you can do to manage your pain yourself with the support of your osteopath, your family and loved-ones. Keeping active, performing exercises and stretches can help, learning to pace your activities so that you don’t trigger a flare-up of your pain as well as setting goals and priorities are all very important and can help you to maintain a fulfilling lifestyle.

For more information on how to manage your persistent pain, speak to your osteopath or visit http://www.paintoolkit.org/