A new study in the Pain Journal of the American Pain Society has found that comsumption of ginger results in moderate to large reductions in muscle pain following exercise induced muscle injury. These findings are similar to those showing effectiveness of ginger on the pain of osteoarthrosis/osteoarthritis.
These findings are also important because many athletes subject themselves to the side effects of NSAID drugs on a regular basis thinking that they will help with post exercise muscle pain, when in fact no study has shown that NSAID's are effective for this condition.