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Treadmill training-induced adaptations in muscle phenotype in persons with incomplete spinal cord injury.
Muscle & nerve - 1 Jul 2004
Stewart Brian G, Tarnopolsky Mark A, Hicks Audrey L, McCartney Neil, Mahoney Douglas J, Staron Robert S, Phillips Stuart M
Abstract excerpt
Body weight-supported treadmill (BWST) training has been shown to improve ambulatory capacity in persons with a spinal cord injury (SCI); however, the effect that BWST training has on skeletal muscle phenotype is unknown. We aimed to determine whether 6 months (three sessions/week) of BWST training in neurologically stable persons with a traumatic spinal cord injury (ASIA C) alters skeletal muscle phenotype,...
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