Impact of bed rest on conduit artery remodeling: effect of exercise countermeasures.
Physical inactivity is a potent stimulus for vascular remodeling, leading to a marked decrease in conduit artery diameter. However, lit...
Incomplete recovery of lumbar intervertebral discs 2 years after 60-day bed rest.
STUDY DESIGN.: Prospective longitudinal study. OBJECTIVE.: To evaluate the recovery of the lumbar intervertebral discs after bed rest. ...
Four weeks of training in a sledge jump system improved the jump pattern to almost natural reactive jumps.
In spite of extensive training regimens during long-term space missions with existing training devices, astronauts suffer from muscle a...
Muscle Function, but Not Muscle Mass, is Related to Balance Confidence in Older Adults
Background:
Both impaired muscle function and low muscle mass are included in recent consensus sarcopenia definitions. Sarcopenia is as...
Jumping Mechanography and Classic Muscle Function Tests Effects of Age and Gender
Background:
Sarcopenia is a risk factor for falls and fractures. As muscle function predicts disability and mortality better than musc...
Leg stiffness can be maintained during reactive hopping despite modified acceleration conditions.
AIM: The aim of the present study was to evaluate reactive hops under systematically modified acceleration conditions. It was hypothesi...
Muscle force and power in obese and overweight children.
The study investigated differences in skeletal muscle function between obese and non-obese children using a force platform. Forty obes...
Effect of different collegiate sports on cortical bone in the tibia.
Objectives: The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of sports participation on cortical bone in the tibia. Methods: 53 fe...
Effects of jumping exercise on maximum ground reaction force and bone in 8- to 12-year-old boys and girls: a 9-month randomized controlled trial.
Objectives: To assess adaptations of the lower leg muscle-bone unit in 8- to 12-year-old children following a randomized controlled jum...
Functional assessment of the muscle-bone unit in the lower leg.
Based on the mechanostat theory and the muscle-bone hypothesis, a methodological assessment of the musculoskeletal status in health an...