Eccentric Exercise Is Powerful but Can Be Painful

“Not Everything That Is Faced Can Be Changed, but Nothing Can Be Changed Until It Is Faced”: A Response to Recent Commentaries

Post-partum thyroiditis can be painful.

A patient with post-partum thyroiditis is described. She was a 22 year old with a negative family history of autoimmune thyroid disease who was noted to have a high titre of antithyroid microsomal antibody during pregnancy. She developed mild hyperthyroidism 8 weeks post-partum but at 12 weeks she had a mildly painful enlarged thyroid gland. At 20 weeks post-partum she had severe thyroidal pain...

Hippocampal cell proliferation is reduced following prenatal ethanol exposure but can be rescued with voluntary exercise.

The ingestion of ethanol during pregnancy has a number of deleterious consequences for the unborn offspring, producing structural and functional deficits that affect the brain and many other organs into adulthood. The hippocampus is a brain area that is particularly sensitive to ethanol's adverse effects. In a previous study we showed that voluntary exercise can ameliorate deficits in long-term...

Muscle damage and inflammation after eccentric exercise: can the repeated bout effect be removed?

The current consensus in exercise physiology is that the repeated bout effect always appears after few eccentric exercise sessions. This is the first attempt to challenge this tenet, by exploiting specificity in muscle plasticity. More specifically, we examined whether the opposing adaptations in muscle induced after concentric and eccentric exercise can attenuate and/or remove the repeated bou...

Calpain-3 is activated following eccentric exercise.

TO THE EDITOR: In a recent article by Lehti et al. (3) the effect of fatiguing exercise on the mRNA expression of a number of skeletal muscle proteins was examined. In the discussion it was stated that in a study conducted by our laboratory, calpain-3 mRNA was increased 24 h after a bout of eccentric exercise (4). It needs to be pointed out that this was NOT a finding in that manuscript and the...