Local body composition is associated with gender differences of bone development at the forearm in puberty
BACKGROUND/AIMS: The present analyses intend to clarify if gender and puberty modify the relationship between bone development (modelin...
Mechanical influences on bone development in children
This review focuses on methodological concepts in the evaluation of skeletal muscle function and on adaptation. It is now thought that ...
The ‘functional muscle-cartilage unit’: a reasonable approach to describe a putative relationship between muscle force and longitudinal growth at the forearm in children and adolescents
BACKGROUND: Several reports give evidence that the perichondral ossificiation of bone tubes (modeling) strongly depends on muscular for...
Updates on improvement of human athletic performance: focus on world records in athletics
INTRODUCTION: Progression of world records (WRs) in athletics is a reliable mean to assess the potentiality of the human body, which al...