1. Twelve healthy subjects received high-voltage pulsed galvanic stimulation (115-475 V d.c.) delivered in separate treatments of 2, 32 and 128 pulses/s for 10 min at the subject's maximum tolerable voltage while calf muscle blood flow was measured by non-invasive Whitney strain-gauge venous occlusion plethysmography. 2. The high-voltage pulsed galvanic stimulation was administered with negativ...

Calves can be easily seen in daily life and are an important part of the body contour. Asymmetric calves can develop from unbalanced distribution and deposition of fat and muscles between the legs. Calf asymmetry may be due to congenital factors, disease (e.g., poliomyelitis, cerebral palsy, or infection), spinal cord injury, or the effects of surgical treatment and may have severe adverse psyc...

We have recently shown that eccentric contractions (Ecc) of rat calf muscles cause muscle damage and decreased glycogen and glucose transporter GLUT-4 protein content in the white (WG) and red gastrocnemius (RG) but not in the soleus (S) (S. Asp, S. Kristiansen, and E. A. Richter. J. Appl. Physiol. 79: 1338-1345, 1995). To study whether these changes affect insulin action, hindlimbs were perfus...

Seven subjects with normal joints were tested for active and passive position sense of ankle inversion, peroneal reflex reaction time to sudden ankle inversion, and postural stability during single-leg stance. The tests were performed before and after regional block of the ankle and foot with local anaesthetic. Passive position sense, assessed with the muscles relaxed, was greatly impaired by a...

a 5-day-old female holstein calf was necropsied because of lethargy, recumbency and anorexia. at necropsy, multiple gross defects were evident in several organs, including unclosed sutures of skull bones, asymmetrical orbits, doming of the skull bones, hydrocephalus, hydranencephaly, cleft palate, brachygnathia, ventricular septal defect, mitral valve dysplasia and rudimentary lungs. on microsc...

A 27-yr-old male presented to the author9s emergency room on August 22, 2000, with a 5-day history of fever, chills, and tenderness of bilateral calf muscles. He also complained of diarrhoea, cough and mild haemoptysis. The patient had a part-time job at a Chinese dessert company during summer vacations. He had been in good health previously. There was no history of blood transfusion, hepatitis...

In the investigations of muscle activity in different sports, their morphology is very important, but also difficult to measure precisely. Under specific sport training morphological and physiological changes in muscles occur. MRI and MRS offer excellent noninvasive tool for their evaluation (1,2). The aim of this study was to find differences among various groups of sportsmen by MRI and to eva...

background delayed onset muscle soreness (doms) is the sensation of stiffness and pain in the muscles that occurs 24-48 hours after unaccustomed or strenuous exercise. objectives the aim of this study was to examine and compare the effect of vibration training (vt) on delayed onset muscle soreness. materials and methods twenty healthy non-athletic volunteers (female, age 20-30 years, body mass ...