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Measuring upper extremity function across the adult lifespan
As we age, we generally experience a progressive decline in the ability to use our arms and hands for normal daily activities such as using cutlery to cut food, brushing our teeth and buttoning u...
Translating walking parameters into meaningful biomarkers for benchmarking pathological movement behaviour
Walking is regulated and coordinated through complex control mechanisms within the human sensory motor system, allowing individuals to adapt to both internal and external challenges and perturbat...
Early neural adaptations in response to a bout of resistance training depend on contraction intensity
Resistance training is a type of physical exercise used in rehabilitation, sports, and recreational settings to increase muscle force and mass. Significant increases in muscle mass usually occur ...
Joint position sense is unaffected during persistent experimental muscle pain
Our ability to sense the position of our body, known as proprioception, is fundamental for controlling how we move and interact during daily activities (Proske and Gandevia, 2012). People who hav...
Electrical stimulation of the abdominal muscles for the critically ill
Intensive care beds, which cater for critically ill patients, are predicted to represent >30% of all future hospital beds. Around a third of critically ill patients require mechanical ventilation...
The speed of strength: how often should you train one arm to increase strength in both arms?
Single limb resistance training improves strength not only in the trained limb, but also in similar muscles of the untrained limb. The increase in strength in the untrained limb, commonly known a...
Small amounts of involuntary muscle activity limit passive joint range of motion
The loss of passive joint range of motion (i.e. contracture) is common in stroke and other neurological conditions. More than half of people with stroke or spinal cord injury will develop at leas...
The debate on muscle hypertrophy
For decades, there has been a consensus amongst scientists and practitioners that one of the ways people become stronger after resistance training is that their muscles become bigger. This increa...
A single bout of exercise reduces pain sensitivity in people with Parkinson’s disease
Pain is one of the most troubling impairments of Parkinson’s disease, with up to 85% of people affected (Broen et al., 2012). While exercise has many benefits in assisting people with Parkinson...
Long-term self-stretching increases muscle length in chronic hemiparesis
In stroke-induced hemiparesis, muscles such as the plantar flexors undergo dramatic alterations that involve both physical shortening (decrease in fascicle length) and viscoelastic loss of extens...