Caffeine, Physical Activity And Pain
There has been a lot of things written, good and bad, about caffeine. A new study shows that caffeine may decrease pain during exercise.
University of Illinois kinesiology and community health professor Robert Motl, PhD, has a study on the effects of caffeine on pain during exercise in the April edition of the International Journal of Sport Nutrition and Exercise Metabolism.
“This study looks at the effects of caffeine on muscle pain during high-intensity exercise as a function of habitual caffeine use,” he says. “No one has examined that before.
“What we saw is something we didn’t expect: caffeine-naïve individuals and habitual users have the same amount of reduction in pain during exercise after caffeine (consumption).”
For more check out this link: http://www.therapytimes.com/content=1002J84C48965286406040441
