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Why Your Muscles Shake During Planks — And Other Fitness Oddities, Explained

  • (December 15, 2014)

A grueling interval workout or a long cardio session can give you sore muscles, but a sore head? It’s more common than you might think. In a study of 4,000 cyclists published in the journal Headache, 37 percent of people surveyed reported having at least one exercise-induced headache per month. Exercise dilates the blood vessels in your head, which may trigger headaches by exciting branches of the trigeminal nerve — the nerve in the brain that carries painful sensations from within the skull outward, explains neurologist Lawrence C. Newman, MD, president of the American Headache Society and director of the Headache Institute at Mount Sinai St. Luke’s Roosevelt.

- Dr. Lawrence Newman, Director of The Headache Institute, Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai St. Luke’s, Mount Sinai Roosevelt, Mount Sinai Beth Israel

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