The use of noninvasive techniques to measure respiratory muscle performance after different types of endurance exercise has not been entirely successful, as the results have not consistently indicated diminished performance for similar types of exercise. The aim of the present study was 1) to compare different, noninvasive methods to assess respiratory muscle performance before and after an exh...

Spintronics is a continuously expending area of research and development at the merge between magnetism and electronics. It aims at taking advantage of the quantum characteristic of the electrons, i.e. its spin, to create new functionalities and new devices. Spintronic devices typically rely on the Magneto Resistive (MR) effects, which consists in a dependence of the electrical resistance upon ...

The scapula plays an important role in shoulder function and requires both significant mobility and stability. Normal motion is 3-dimensional, and during arm elevation consists of upward rotation, posterior tilting, and external rotation as well as clavicular elevation and retraction. Examination should include visual observation, symptom alterations tests, testing of muscle strength, and flexi...

Cardiovascular deconditioning after long duration spaceflight is especially challenging in women who have a lower orthostatic tolerance (OT) compared with men. We hypothesized that an exercise prescription, combining supine aerobic treadmill exercise in a Lower Body Negative Pressure (LBNP) chamber followed by 10 min of resting LBNP, 3 to 4 times a week, and flywheel resistive training every th...

Burd NA, Tang JE, Moore DR, Phillips SM. Exercise training and protein metabolism: influences of contraction, protein intake, and sex-based differences. J Appl Physiol 106: 1692–1701, 2009. First published November 26, 2008; doi:10.1152/japplphysiol.91351.2008.—Muscle contraction during exercise, whether resistive or endurance in nature, has profound affects on muscle protein turnover that can ...

The objectives of this study were to evaluate the efficacy of two separate countermeasures, exercise and protein supplementation, to prevent muscle strength and lean tissue mass losses during 60 days of bed rest (BR) in women and whether countermeasure efficacy was influenced by pre-BR muscular fitness (strength, endurance, tissue mass). Twenty-four women were assigned to an exercise (EX, n = 8...

BACKGROUND Muscle weakness has been suggested to result from the deconditioning that accompanies decreased activity levels in chronic cardiopulmonary diseases. The benefits of standard exercise programmes on exercise capacity and muscular strength in disease and health are well documented and exercise capacity is a significant predictor of survival in patients with chronic heart failure (CHF). ...