I need information on delayed onset muscle soreness (DONS) ....?
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This may help get you going. I came across it looking for some slightly different information. Good luck!\n\nhttp://learn.sdstate.edu/Matthew_Vukovich/stength%20training%202c%20handouts.pdf
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http://www.post-polionetwork.org.au/news/ppn29.html   This association might help although it is in Australia.\n\nAny good reputable text book should give adquate information on the management of this disease.
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Muscles can sore for a number of reasons and outside of overworking them and conditioning them for regular exercise there are a few other things that can be the culprit.  One BIG one is not performing the exercises correctly or not positioning yourself (setting up equipment) correctly.  Then using too much weight can cause damage so be cautios.  Using too much weight usually causes you to use ballistic movements to complete repetitions (jerking the weights to complete the move).  Then there is the buildup of lactic acid that the body gets from exercising the muscles - this is where massage can help too move the lactic acid out tof the muscle fibers and also break apart twisted and tight muscle fibers.  Then consider propere hydration - drink a lot of water, you will feel better.   Be sure you are taking in a proper amount of proteins and have a good diet so that you muscles recover and rebuild properly.  Don't forget to stretch and warm up before a workout AND don't forget to stretch at the END of you workout.  Lastly, make sure you have a well rounded work out and use a regular schedule; you should never let more than three days lapse between a workout and if you are serious you should try for every couple of days.
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Going to Yahoo! answers to get mostly lay people's opinion on medical conditions that they can not see or ask questions about...just take the answers with a grain of salt.\n\nAlthough you say you had, you probably never really did pull a muscle before.  But you have now.  The symptoms you describe are typical of a pulled muscle (not a strain which often involve ligaments where its a little painful for a couple days and then all better - no bruise)  In this case, the muscle ruptures and a very significant bruise shows up several days after the fact (Often causing the skin to be tender and firm).  \n\nIt takes about a month to recover.  The bruising you see on the other side of your foot I think is probably a dependent hematoma (a bruise that shows up at a place lower than the injury because gravity pulls the blood down).  Any place there is a collection of free blood, which occupies space, there may be some tenderness.  I doubt that the muscle relaxer is very helpful two weeks after the fact.  Anti inflamatories might be helpful (like Alieve or Ibuprofen) or even Tylenol if you don't get along with the others.  Rest it.  You can use heat and ice combinations.  Do some gentle stretching.\n\nGood luck.
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you can't delay it, but you should treat it like you would any other muscle pain - take two aleve.\nalso take some evening primrose oil.
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I have Sciatica and my symptoms are a numb foot and my calf feels like the muscle is pulled.  I had an MRI and its a pinched S1 nerve from a bulging disk.  I know someone else who had sciatica from a L5 herniation and nerve pinch and there was buttock and ankle soreness.  Usually sciatica goes lower than just the buttocks but not always.  My Doc told me that it is possible to injure a disk by sneezing or vomiting if you already have a weakness there.  Also, many times its just muscle related and goes away with time.  He might want to try massage, or talk to his Doc about getting muscle relaxer and anti-inflammatory meds if he doesn't get better.  The next step is an MRI diagnosis if it doesn't respond any in a few weeks. I was told that it usually takes about 6 weeks to heal from a disk problem. Good luck!
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Drink PLENTY of water.  Warm up before and stretch after.  It takes a while to get over a pulled muscle.  I pulled a quad one fall, would think it's OK and then re-aggravate it every time I'd start to run.
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I think its Bullshit as muscle swell due to a Virus.But you should ask a Doctor.
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Hi! I'm a certified personal trainer with 10 years experience. I am wondering if you'd been running prior to this? Did you just decide to take up running then do 2 days in a row? Running is a high impact sport. It is best alternated with lower-impact activiities. Whether you were running before or not, it is better to run every OTHER day and let your muscles get some recovery time. Muscles don't get stronger with exercise, they get stronger AFTER exercise, during the recovery period. Rest is essential to muscle growth and fitness advancement. Doing light workouts on the days between allows more blood flow to the overworked muscles and speeds up recovery time. Taking 1000 IU's of vitamin E has also been shown to reduce muscle soreness by repairing muscle oxidation on a cellular level. Running 3 days per week is excellent for cardio fitness, but every day of the week ABOVE 3, increased your chance of injury by 100%.  I would recommend talking with a trainer who has a certification from ACE, NASM, ACSM or NSCA. Those are the 4 best certifications out there. There are more than 200 others that are just paper. Let them design you a program. Some trainers will even do some muscle tests on you to find out if you have muscle imbalances or problems. The orthodics might be hurting you, not helping. Please seek professional advice. It could save you some serious injury for a very small price.
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I haven't pulled the muscles in my hamstrings yet, but I once pulled every muscle in my right arm. I took ibuprofen for the swelling (I was told by my dr. to take 800mg and drink alot of water every 6-8 hrs., but please note I am NOT a doctor), and rotated hot and cold compresses. I tried to wait it out, but ended up going to the emergency room. They put my arm in a sling, and gave me muscle relaxers to help with the pain, as well as anti-inflammatory medication. I was told to move it a bit, so the muscles didn't stiffen up, but also to really limit how much I used it. That's not something you can do with your legs unless you have a wheelchair handy, so I'm sorry, but you may have to bite the bullet and see a doctor. UNLESS, you know one and he will call in something for you (a prescription).  If you have access to a hot tub or sauna, you may try that, or just taking a very warm bath. Hope you feel better!
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Well, I will actually try to answer you (as if you never thought of going to the doctor, oy).  I had the same thing for a long time, it was a taekwondo injury.  When I ran, it killed me for a couple of days (and this was *after* 3 months of physical therapy, which I'm convinced made it worse, and ice and heat and more ice and heat).  The thing that helped me most was honestly yoga.  I did it on and off for years before the injury and just picked it up again.  I have never felt better.  Deep tissue massage did nothing for me what lengthening and strengthening the muscle did.  Go easy at first, and if it feels okay, try a little more.  I can now run again (after about 4 years) with no repercussions at all.  I'm healed!  Good luck and feel better!
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DMD\nlook it up
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it depends.  the soreness is from lactic acid in your muscles and it takes a while to go away (this is normal).  if you worked out way too hard you should probably give it a rest for a day or two, but if it's just your standard i'm-not-used-to-working-out-so-im-a-little-sore-from-the-movement type stuff, you can keep at it.  just be mindful of the difference between regular soreness and actual injury.
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Muscle fibers become torn after an intense exercise. They then need time to repair the damage, and prepare for another round of intense exercise by making a little bit more muscle. As a bodybuilder, I will not exercise my muscles till they are not sore, and I know that my muscle fibers are repaired and prepared for another round of even heavier weights! So, I would hold off a few days till they feel not sore (sore means that the cells that you broke in your muscle fibers have not been cleaned up by the body and are causing inflammation at the sight. This is so the blood can keep coming in and cleaning up the broken cells as your body repairs them).
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My guess is Dermatomyositis. \n\n"Dermatomyositis (DM) affects people of any age or sex, but is found is more women than men. DM is thought to be an autoimmune disease, meaning the body's immune system, which normally fights infections and viruses, does not stop fighting once the infection or virus is gone. The immune system then attacks the body's own normal, healthy tissue through inflammation (IN fluh MAY shun), or swelling.\n\nDM is the easiest type of myositis to diagnose because of the skin rash. The DM rash looks patchy, dusky, and reddish or purple. It is found on the eyelids, cheeks, nose, back, upper chest, elbows, knees and knuckles. Click here to see examples of typical skin symptoms. Some people also have hardened bumps under the skin, called calcinosis (kal si NOH sis). The rash is often seen before muscle weakness is felt. The skin rash and weak muscles are caused by inflammation (IN fluh MAY shun), or swelling, in the blood vessels under the skin and in the muscles, also called vasculitis (vas kyoo LIE tis).\n\nMuscle weakness usually happens over a period of days, weeks or months. Patients who have the skin rash but feel no muscle weakness have amyopathic (a mee yo PATH ik) DM, or DM sine (sin AY) myositis. The weakness begins with muscles that are closest to and within the trunk of the body. Neck, hip, back and shoulder muscles are examples. Some DM patients have muscle pain and difficulty swallowing, or dysphagia (dis FAY je yuh)." (from http://www.myositis.org/about_myositis/faq_dermatomyositis.cfm)
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Use a mixture of essential oils of peppermint, helichrysum, clove, wintergreen, lavader, and euclyptus. These all have pain numbing effects that can be used in long timeframes without any negative side effects. Additionally if you have bad muscle tension this will helpwith that too, this mixture doesn't only numb pain but it helps achieve a balnce in your muscular system so you heal up whats causeing the pain. Also if youend up being sensitive to the oil mixture wash it off with olive or almond oil, DO NOT USE WATER!!! Water pushes the oil further into the skin where as the vegetable oils will dilute them. Its rare to have reactions, but if you do use less of the oil or dilute it before application with either of the before mentioned vegetable oils. Hope this works for oyu.
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What you are experiencing is DOMS (Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness).  If you are new to exercise, or have had a heavy session, it's normal.\n\nThe way your body makes strength and size gins in response to heavy weight training is through microscopic damage done to the muscles.  Constant repair to these makes the body respond by building bigger, stronger muscle.\n\nOvertraining occurs when you train so much that your body cannot keep up with the repair work.  You will ache after a good session, but it shouldn't last more than a day or so and should not be too severe.  As you get used to training, this will diminish.\n\nSigns of overtraining include;\nlethargy, lack of energy, disturbed sleep, muscle cramps, joint aches, increased incidence of injury, headaches and depression.\n\nAs a rough rule, do not train the same muscle on two consecutive days.  This is why most people train Monday, Wednesday Friday.  Once you get more seriously into heavy weight training you might want to consider split training - where you train different muscles on different days.\n\nThe chances are, you just have a touch of the DOMS.  Embrace it, it's your friend!!!