Back Pain and Coffee
February 22, 2007 by SP Bragg
Filed under Aging Fabulous, Fitness, Health
“That morning cup of coffee may help ease post-exercise muscle soreness, if preliminary research is correct.
In a small study of female college students, researchers found that a caffeine supplement seemed to lessen the muscle pain that crops up a day after a challenging workout.
Known as delayed-onset muscle soreness, the pain is common a day or two after a workout that was more intense than normal. Exercise that involves eccentric contraction of the muscles is particularly likely to cause delayed muscle pain.”
Well, it certainly didn’t help me this morning. My back is still killing me… from shoveling snow I would imagine and this morning’s cup of coffee certainly didn’t help. But I did try Activ On and it does seem to work for a few hours. Now I have it in the medicine cabinet in the spare bathroom so that everyone will have access to it in the middle of the night if they need it. Last night I had to get up and go down stairs for an Advil. Nothing like feeling like crap and then having to go downstairs for medication. Why didn’t I think of loading up the medicine cabinet close to the bedrooms??
And maybe I should think seriously about investing in a shovel like the one above! And I’m off to try another cup of coffee… just in case!
I had a big workout yesterday. The only thing i worry about with coffee (being over 40) is the bloodpressure raises I get from having too much. I have two cups in the morning and 2 in the PM. Anything after that is taboo for me.