Knee extensor strength, activation, and size in very elderly people following strength training

Muscle and Nerve

Volumn 22, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 831-839

  Harridge, Stephen D R ^a,b   Kryger, Ann ^c   Stensgaard, Anders ^d  

^a Rigshospitalet   (Denmark)

^b ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^c Kommunehospitalet ^*  (Denmark)

^d HVIDOVRE HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Age; Exercise; Magnetic resonance imaging; Muscle contraction; Twitch interpolation

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; HUMAN; ISOMETRIC EXERCISE; MALE; MUSCLE FORCE; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRAINING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; HUMANS; ISOMETRIC CONTRACTION; KNEE; LINEAR MODELS; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; PHYSICAL EDUCATION AND TRAINING; TORQUE;

EID: 0032778883     PISSN: 0148639X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4598(199907)22:7<831::AID-MUS4>3.0.CO;2-3     Document Type: Article

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