So what's probably happening here ? And I just , I just hate to give you another bone , but a lot of delayed on some muscle soreness is probably just a neural feedback loop rather than it is actual muscle damage makes a lot of sense . There's a lot of interactions between the um types of neurons that control touch , sensation and pain , sensation and itch sensation .
And it's one that I think most people are familiar with themselves , which is soreness . We think of it as a muscle soreness . But I was trained early on in my scientific career to always question the seemingly obvious .
First of all , what does soreness really reflect ? Is it really muscle soreness ? It feels like it's in the muscles .
If we are sore is something I know we'll get into a little bit later . And then why the delayed onset muscle soreness ? It's actually one question .
Now , I'm not saying that's for sure for certain . I'm just building off the mechanistic logic that we've laid out here really that you've laid out here , there is the more effective principle based on exactly that , which is , this is generally why low level movement is effective at reducing acute soreness because that's low level contraction of the muscles and you're gonna stretch and get tissue out and you get fluid out . Wow , you're literally pumping it out of the the cell .
