Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS)
Delayed onset muscle soreness, the muscle pain felt 24-48 hours after new vigorous or unaccustomed exercise, fascinates athletes. It’s felt most intensely following eccentric exercise
Mobilisation
Jean Dominique Bauby former editor of French Elle magazine, stroke victim and author of “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly” – his autobiographical account of living with locked-in syndrome
Performance Enhancing Drugs in GAA
Last weeks edition of Gaelic Life identified the “creeping culture” of performance enhancing drug use in the GAA. Author Ciaran Woods describes how the organisation, with its amateur ethos, regarded itself and its members as not susceptible to the temptations of the abuse of such substances.
Exercise-Induced Asthma
Exercise-induced asthma affects between 4-7% of the general population and about 80% of diagnosed asthma sufferers. Asthma is characterised by a reversible narrowing of the airways.