This higher protection may be related to lower muscle damage after extenuating activity in non-trained EOD animals determined by the levels of creatine kinase in plasma.
Extensive soft tissue injury with degloving of skin and muscle damage from mid-thigh to lower calf was noted.
The few animal studies that have focused on gender differences after muscle injury concluded that female hormones were at least partially responsible for lower levels of muscle damage [ 21, 22].
Furthermore, blood variables in the present study reflect physiological responses for both upper and lower body muscles, and we cannot clarify the differences in muscle damage and inflammatory responses between upper body and lower body muscles.
Consequently, time-course changes in exercise performances for lower limb muscles or muscle damage markers in blood were similar between CG and CON trials.
Interestingly, the markers of muscle damage and inflammation in the present study were lower than those consistently observed after the Spartathlon race, a 246-km continuous race from Athens to Sparta (Greece).
Besides the lower physical resistance, AL animals showed the higher muscle damage of all groups (Fig. 7).
The purpose of this investigation was to examine the effectiveness of intermittent lower limb occlusion in augmenting recovery from exercise induced muscle damage (EIMD) in physically active males.
Wearing a whole-body CG during the post-exercise period after two bouts of strenuous exercise sessions separated with 4 h of rest did not promote recovery of muscle function for lower limb muscles nor did it attenuate exercise-induced muscle damage in physically active males.
In conclusion, wearing whole-body CG during post-exercise period after two bouts of exercise sessions separated with 4 h of rest period did not promote recovery of muscle function for lower limb muscles or did not affect exercise-induced muscle damage markers in blood among physically active males.
