Eccentric exercise‐induced muscle damage and inflammation in conjunction with high‐altitude decompression in adults

Frode Gottschalk, Mikael Gennser, Mattias Günther, Ola Eiken, Antonis Elia · 2024

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Frode Gottschalk and co-authors test whether hard eccentric exercise raises bubble load during high-altitude exposure. Their 2024 study sent adults to a simulated height of twenty-four thousand feet for ninety minutes. Half had done muscle-damaging exercise a day before, and half had not.

Blood was drawn before and after the climb, and bubble scores were graded on a set scale. The exercise group showed higher bubble scores during exposure. Muscle damage and inflammation markers jumped in that group after exercise and stayed higher. Bubble scores tracked one muscle marker and shifts in one inflammation signal. The authors conclude that fresh muscle damage plus inflammation adds decompression strain.

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CREATORFrode Gottschalk, Mikael Gennser, Mattias Günther, Ola Eiken, Antonis Elia
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE38 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11637614

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