Context: Isokinetic strength and functional performance are used to assess recovery after rehabilitation. It is not known whether low-speed closed-linear-kinetic isokinetic muscle strength correlates with functional performance. Objective: To investigate the relationship between linear closed (CKC) and open (OKC) concentric isokinetic strength of the dominant lower-limb extensors and functional...

This paper reviews the concepts associated with isokinetic open chain assessment and exereise of the quadriceps and hamstring muscle groups. Following a review of the isokinetic concept of exercise, the paper addresses principles of assessment and exercise of the knee, including the importance of musculoskeletal and cardiovascular screening, warm-up, body position, stabilization, and joint alig...

Objective: This study aimed to compare and evaluate the efficacy of eccentric concentric training on quadriceps femoris muscle architecture, strength proprioception in healthy young people. 
 Materials Methods: Sixty subjects were divided into two groups (n=30), (n=30). The outcome measurements Quadriceps Femoris (QF) knee proprioception. was carried out subjects’ dominant side leg (right)...

OBJECTIVE To investigate pulmonary function, working capacity and isokinetic muscle strength in subjects with Marfan syndrome. MATERIALS AND METHODS Seventeen subjects, mean age 23 years, performed spirometry, maximal ergometer cycle tests and knee extension and flexion isokinetic torque tests. RESULTS The subjects with Marfan syndrome had increased total and residual lung volume values com...

Strength is a fundamental quality necessary in achieving optimal physical function and is defined as the ability to produce more force.(Siff M; Stone MH et al., 1993). Thus the display of strength has characteristics which include a magnitude, rate and direction. The force production can be measured by isotonic, isometric or isokinetic methods. The isotonic techniques require lifting a particul...

Muscle fatigue has been defined as “any reduction in the force generating capacity of the total neuromuscular system regardless of the force required in any given situation” (Bigland-Ritchie and Woods, 1984). A reliable muscle fatigue measure has subtly emerged during maximal effort isokinetic contractions that has been able to highlight gender differences in quadriceps and hamstring torque gen...

EXERCISE ON AN ISOKINETIC DEVICE INVOLVES THREE DISTINCT MOVEMENT PHASES: acceleration, constant velocity, and deceleration. Inherent in these phases are unique occurrences that may confound test data and, thereby, test interpretation. Standard methods of data reduction like windowing and other techniques consist of removing the acceleration and deceleration phases in order to assure analysis u...

BACKGROUND Analysis of electromyographic (EMG) activities in the back during dynamic exercise is needed because more complex loading on the spine is created in comparison with that during static exercise. The purpose of this study is to investigate the difference in bilateral midback and low-back paraspinal muscle (PSM) activities during performance of different resistance isokinetic exercises ...

[Purpose] To determine the relationships of the quadriceps rate of torque development and the time to peak torque with the physical function of the elderly. [Subjects and Methods] Twenty-one subjects participated in this study. Quadriceps strength was measured using isometric and isokinetic torque tests. Time to peak torque and rate of torque development were calculated from the torque time cur...