tart cherry and Increased Muscle Soreness

• Tart Cherry Juice: No Effect on Muscle Function Loss or Muscle Soreness in Professional Soccer Players After a Match.

  • 2020-02-01
  • RCT
  • International journal of sports physiology and performance 15(2)
  • • Will Abbott
    • Callum Brashill
    • Adam Brett
    • Tom Clifford

  • PubMed: 31188696
  • DOI: 10.1123/ijspp.2019-0221

  7 Insights on

  • Increased Muscle Soreness

  • High evidence
  • Athletes

  Muscle soreness increased 12- to 60-hour postmatch in both groups, peaking at 12-hour postmatch (TCJ 122 [27] mm vs CON 119 [22] mm), but no group differences were observed (P = .808; ηp2=.024).

  Effect

  Neutral

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  No

  Dose

  2 × 30-mL servings