True or False?
For years, many massage therapists have been taught that lactic acid can and should be flushed from the muscles of athletes after intense activity. This truism has been passed on to clients who have also accepted it as fact. Both therapist and client thus have established and perpetuated a mutual belief system that purging of lactic acid is not only necessary, but also efficiently accomplished with the assistance of massage.
From:
Sports Massage & Recovery Time
Re-examining the Role of Lactic Acid
By Shirley Vanderbilt
Originally published in Massage & Bodywork magazine
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