Muscle strength - Testing
Elderly women with metabolic syndrome present higher cardiovascular risk and lower relative muscle strength
... sedentary control elderly women. They were submitted to an evaluation of body composition by means of dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry and muscle strength testing with 10 maximal repetitions of knee ...
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Addition of tiotropium to formoterol improves inspiratory muscle strength after exercise in COPD
... function testing, blood gas analysis, and a symptom- limited incremental cardiopulmonary exercise test on their current medical ...inspiratory strength, as well as a constant work rate test (CWT) to the ...
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Isokinetic Evaluation of Knee Extensor/Flexor Muscle Strength in Behcet’s Patients
... affect muscle strength either posi- tively or ...formal testing, each subject performed a warm up on a bicycle ergo meter with a load of 1 W/kg and with stretching exercises of the lower limbs for 5 ...
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Effects of training volume on lower-body muscle strength in untrained young men: a contralateral control study
... Data are expressed as means ± SD. The normality and homogeneity for outcome measures were tested using the Shapiro– Wilk’s and Levene’s tests, respectively. Nutritional intake at pre- and post-training was compared using ...
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Differences in muscle strength after ACL reconstruction do not influence cardiorespiratory responses to isometabolic exercise
... Consistent verbal commands were given by the examiner during each test to ensure maximal effort, and visual feedback of the recorded torque was provided during the test. All subjects were tested by the same examiner who ...
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Tramadol Overdose Induced Transient Paresthesia and Decreased Muscle Strength: A Case Series
... examination. Muscle strength was assessed with manual muscle ...The strength of upper and lower limbs symmetrically declined in the first visit and increased gradually in 6 and 12 hours post- ...
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The impact of 2 weeks detraining on phase angle and muscle strength in trained older adults
... the testing movements, and even tiredness or mental fatigue (Amundsen, 1990; Hopkins, ...maximal testing have shown that a learning effect may occur because of test familiarization, especially when the ...
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Sphygmomanometer test to evaluate muscle strength in individuals with lower limb amputation: validity and reliability
... with testing and operations related to the muscular force test, such as positioning, equipment calibration, and pre-test care, were observed and performed following all the observations suggested by the ...
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Relationship between propulsive force of the arm, body composition and isokinetic muscle strength indicators in surfers
... Sixteen competitive male surfers (age 29 ± 7 years) who practiced surf in the Pernambuco sea coast for at least eight years, were included. At the time of the study, the participants were actively (in season) competing ...
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The effects of immersion cryotherapy on levels of muscle strength and power
... Indeed, Pritchard & Saliba [6] had argued that there is variability in the ex- perimental design of studies that investigated the effect of cryotherapy, generating an interpretive bias, especially regarding the ...
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Evaluation of rotator cuff muscle strength in healthy individuals
... average strength values (N) found by this author vary according to the position of the subject during ...by muscle con- traction of the dominant limb as compared with the strengths produced by the ...
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RESPIRATORY MUSCLE STRENGTH IN IDIOPATHIC SCOLIOSIS AFTER TRAINING PROGRAM
... 7. American Thoracic Society/European Respiratory Society. ATS/ERS Statement on respiratory muscle testing. Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2002;15;166(4):518-624. 8. Windisch W, Hennings E, Sorichter S, Hamm H, ...
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Resistance training for muscle strength and lean mass in adults older than 60 years: a systematic review
... Loss of body fat (-5.0 ± 1.1%) and thigh fat (-6.9% ± 1.5%) in EET subjects only. Relative thigh lean mass increased with EET (+2.5 ± 0.6%) and RT (+2.0 ± 0.3%) and correlated negatively with type IIX/type II ...
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A comparative analisys of pelvic floor muscle strength in women with stress and urge urinary incontinence
... Objective evaluation of perineal muscle strength was made using a portable perineom- eter (Peritron 9300+) connected to a balloon catheter, size 11x 2.6 cm, inserted into the vagi- na. The balloon was ...
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Isokinetic evaluation of the trunk muscle strength in housewives with fibromyalgia: a cross-sectional study
... that muscle impairment was predominant in the extensor trunk muscles [ 20 ...trunk muscle strength between 23 postmenopausal women with FM and 11 healthy ...the strength of trunk and upper ...
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REGIONAL BODY COMPOSITION AND MUSCLE STRENGTH ARE RELATED TO BONE MINERAL CONTENT IN ELDERLY
... between strength capacity in upper and lower limbs exercises and BMC, it is highlighted that the 45º leg-press exercise strength is associated to left leg BMC ...leg-press strength is associated with ...
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Breast cancer surgery does not impact long-term pulmonary function and respiratory muscle strength
... The 32 participants presented ages between 24 and 70 years old (mean=50.34; SD = 11.32) and BMI of 27.48 kg/m² (SD=4.06). None of the participants had known distant metastases on routine screening and physical ...
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Low muscle strength is associated with metabolic risk factors in Colombian children: the ACFIES study.
... handgrip strength or cardiorespiratory fitness and individual CV and metabolic risk factors and MRS, adjusted for sex, age and pubertal ...handgrip strength for CRF in a second model and in a third model, ...
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Diversity of parameters in the muscle strength evaluation of Brazilian school children and adolescents: a systematic review
... MS: muscle strength; VJWAA: vertical jump without the aid of arms ; VJUA: vertical jump using arms; HJ: horizontal jump; HGS: handgrip strength; ...
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Tensile strength of the posterior and anterior layer of the rectus abdominis muscle sheath in cadavers
... the muscle-aponeurotic ...rectus muscle was therefore ...rectum muscle was carried out through its posterior ...of muscle traction were demarcated: eight points were in the anterior layer and ...
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