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Do your muscles tend to swell when they are sore?
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They can: If you over do it, or use new muscles or new exercises, you will feel soreness. Swelling may occur a couple of days later in what is called delayed onset muscle soreness, it is believed that micro tearing or bruising of the muscle fibers causes the inflammatory infiltrate that is swelling. It is self limiting and subsides in a few days.
Answered 10/4/2016
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