Questions tagged [muscle]
It is a contractible and excitable connective tissue found in animals.
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Does menthol have therapeutic effect on sore or inflamed muscles and tendons?
I use a gel for muscle pain after sport. Its active ingredients are listed as ibuprofen and levomenthol. The amount of menthol is sufficient to feel quite a lot of numbbness/burning for maybe half an ...
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When doing static (traditional "lean and hold" type of stretching), how long should we hold the stretch?
I was doing some muscle stretching after my daily run (the idea is to stretch to have flexible muscles) and it got me to think: is there a minimum amount of time required for the stretch to be ...