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Painkillers Do Not Relieve Workout Soreness

The July, 2000 issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation reports that pain relievers do little, if anything, to ease the common muscle soreness that occurs from working out too hard.

Researchers found that treatment with aspirin, acetaminophen and codeine did nothing to relieve post-workout soreness that normally occurs after working a muscle to exhaustion. The drugs also did nothing to help the delayed-onset soreness that occurs the morning after too much exertion.

The authors go on to say, "only time takes away the pain."

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