Many physically active people get muscle pain after exercise, known as "delayed onset muscle soreness" or DOMS. Foam rolling has emerged as a popular means of alleviating delayed onset muscle soreness ...

Have your legs ever been so stiff and tired that simply bending down to tie your shoes felt like a Herculean task? Whether muscular discomfort comes from an intense workout or too much sitting, ...

Foam rolling is a treatment that helps speed up recovery from muscle soreness and tightness. It’s also a popular method for self-myofascial release, which is a deep-tissue massage that can help with ...

After spending decades on the fitness fringes, foam rolling has arrived at center stage. Whole classes are now devoted to the practice of slowly rolling different parts of the body over a tube; it’s ...

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Foam rolling may help alleviate tightness or trigger points in the quads, hamstrings, calves, lower back, lats, shoulders, and IT band, among other body parts. Foam rolling is a type of self-massage ...

Ken Nosaka receives funding from the National Health and Medical Research Council and Defence Science and Technology. He is affiliated with the Stay Sharp Program (not-for-profit group in a community ...