Study participants took either ketoprofen or celecoxib to treat muscle soreness following exercise, but researchers found that the reduction in pain for both patient groups was too small to achieve any benefit for pain management.
To the contrary, pain severity over a one-week period after exercise was increased in participants who took ketoprofen at the first onset of muscle soreness, said Matthias Rother, MD, of International Medical Research in Graefelfing, Germany. “Researchers concluded that there is no value in [anti-inflammatory drug] treatment for muscle soreness,” the report said.
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