Comments on: Improve Blood Circulation http://www.greenherbalremedies.com/blog/improve-blood-circulation/ Wed, 20 Jul 2011 13:03:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Salvatore Granitehttp://www.greenherbalremedies.com/blog/improve-blood-circulation/comment-page-1/#comment-38 Salvatore Granite Sun, 17 May 2009 17:59:06 +0000 http://www.greenherbalremedies.com/blog/?p=1154#comment-38 There is a common belief in the general public about the way in which massage is beneficial. People believe that massage after exercise improves muscle blood flow and helps get rid of lactic acid.Kinesiology and Health Studies professor Michael Tschakovsky and his team from Queen's University has busted the myth.The belief that massage aids in the removal of lactic acid from muscle tissue is so pervasive it is even listed on the Canadian Sports Massage Therapists website as one of the benefits of massage, despite there being absolutely no scientific research to back this up.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.More information: This study will be presented at the annual American College of Sports Medicine conference in Seattle, Washington May 27-30, 2009. There is a common belief in the general public about the way in which massage is beneficial. People believe that massage after exercise improves muscle blood flow and helps get rid of lactic acid.

Kinesiology and Health Studies professor Michael Tschakovsky and his team from Queen’s University has busted the myth.

The belief that massage aids in the removal of lactic acid from muscle tissue is so pervasive it is even listed on the Canadian Sports Massage Therapists website as one of the benefits of massage, despite there being absolutely no scientific research to back this up.

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.

More information: This study will be presented at the annual American College of Sports Medicine conference in Seattle, Washington May 27-30, 2009.

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