{"id":2280,"date":"2009-08-12T13:03:18","date_gmt":"2009-08-12T13:03:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=2280"},"modified":"2009-08-12T13:03:18","modified_gmt":"2009-08-12T13:03:18","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/2280","title":{"rendered":"Pill Poppers?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2010\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dpfr.org.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/ice20bear20fall.jpg\" alt=\"ice20bear20fall\" width=\"421\" height=\"254\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Do you take nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen regularly before competition to avoid pain?<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>Dr Bob doesn\u2019t -although\u00a0you might argue he doesn\u2019t compete as such- but according to the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bjsm.bmj.com\/cgi\/content\/extract\/43\/8\/548\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">British Journal of Sports Medicine<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\"> this is very common amongst athletes in a variety of sports.<span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0 <\/span>A quarter of world cup players took these drugs before 2 \/3 of matches and one in ten before every game. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">But why is this undesirable? <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>NSAIDs block enzymes that are involved in blood vessels ,leading to more heart attacks and strokes, and the kidney, reducing renal function. <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>They also reduce healing of soft tissue and bone injuries. The is also evidence that NSAIDs impair development of collagen in muscles, tendons and ligaments as a result of training and so may lead to more injuries.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"margin: 0cm 0cm 0pt;\"><span style=\"font-size: small; font-family: Times New Roman;\">Dr Bob knows though that fell runners are made of sterner stuff and unlike footballers <span style=\"mso-spacerun: yes;\">\u00a0<\/span>don\u2019t live in fear of a tumble.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Do you take nonsteroidal anti inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen regularly before competition to avoid pain?\u00a0 Dr Bob doesn\u2019t -although\u00a0you might argue he doesn\u2019t compete as such- but according to the British Journal of Sports Medicine this is very common amongst athletes in a variety of sports.\u00a0 A quarter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-carshare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}