The phrase
"microscopic tears" means very tiny, almost invisible injuries or tiny rips in the body's tissues.
Full definition
More contractions mean more micro trauma (
microscopic tears in muscle fibers) and an increased metabolic rate.
A muscle strain, also called a pulled muscle, occurs when a muscle is stretched too far, and
microscopic tears occur within the muscle fibers.
Microscopic tearing of tissue caused by unlubricated friction increases the chance of transmission of diseases.
The lactic acid theory is now largely discredited, and muscle soreness is instead thought to result
from microscopic tears in muscle fibres — and, crucially, new tears continue to appear for several days after a bout of exercise, possibly due to inflammation of the affected area.
This can accidentally
create microscopic tears in your skin, allowing STI - causing microorganisms to enter your bloodstream during sexual intercourse.
You can
develop microscopic tears in your muscle fibers (which may fail to heal if you continue over-exercising), and increased risk for injuries.
It's worth noting that some experts dislike physical exfoliation (the kind done by the scrubby particles in scrubs), as they find it to be ultimately damaging by
causing microscopic tearing and inflammation in the skin.
Either a blood vessel can snap, leading to a haemorrhage, or there can be
microscopic tearing of the tissue around the vessel.
There's a reason you're still stiff and hurting: Exercise creates swelling and inflammation
from microscopic tears in your tissues.
This damage consists of
microscopic tears in the muscle fibers that make up the muscle and may involve injury to the contractile elements within the muscle fiber as well as the surrounding tissue, the connective tissue that surrounds each muscle fiber.
Large haemorrhages are what cause boxers to fall into comas and occasionally die during bouts, but
the microscopic tears to blood vessels can be no less damaging in the long run.
«A lot of the people will have
microscopic tears — not like the bucket handle tears — but as part of the degenerative process,» says Dr. Feagan.
In other words, constant and repetitive motion that pulls on the tendons eventually tightens them and makes them susceptible to
microscopic tearing.
In the minutes and hours after your exercise session, your body goes into repair mode, mending
the microscopic tears in muscle fibers.
That fuzzy material lining the lint trap is made up of tiny shreds of thread from hundreds of
microscopic tears in the fabric of your clothing.