Hello all,

I wanted to forward this information from a colleague at Cornell.

Dave

From: Benjamin Blakeley <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Vitamin I reconsidered
To: "OUTDOORED-L" <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Wednesday, September 9, 2009, 2:15 PM

A Medical Minute:

As a follow-up to a piece of discussion in the FAST Med Kit Seminar, (and for those of you that weren't in attendance,) more evidence that one should not be popping I-candy as a preventative.


Ibuprofen [trade name Advil]

Good for:  Acute pain management, acute swelling reduction.

However, taking it before or during exercise as a preventative is not good as:

1)  by blocking pain you are more likely to injure/ further injure yourself.

and the new evidence:

2)  it's actually counterproductive .  It slows growth and strengthening of muscle, bone, and tendon in response to exercise.  You will be more sore the following day if you popped Vitamin I before your workout and it'll be that much harder to get to where you can pull 5.12, Tele backwards, or paddle class IV.


Here's the link for the complete NY Times article:

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/01/phys-ed-does-ibuprofen-help-or-hurt-during-exercise/

So get out there and exercise your drug free bod.

Yer Wild Med dude,

Ben

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