Safety of a combined strength and endurance training using neuromuscular electrical stimulation of thigh muscles in patients with heart failure and bipolar sensing cardiac pacemakers

Wiener Klinische Wochenschrift

Volumn 115, Issue 19-20, 2003, Pages 710-714

  Crevenna, Richard ^a   Mayr, Winfried ^a   Keilani, Mohammad ^a   Pleiner, Johannes ^a   Nuhr, Martin ^a   Quittan, Michael ^a   Pacher, Richard ^a   Fialka Moser, Veronika ^a   Wolzt, Michael ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

Author keywords

Endurance; Neuromuscular electrical stimulation; Pacemaker; Severe chronic heart failure; Strength

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL HEART PACEMAKER; BIOMEDICAL TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CLINICAL TRIAL; ELECTRIC CURRENT; ELECTRICAL PARAMETERS; ELECTRODE; ELECTROSTIMULATION; ENDURANCE; EXTENSOR MUSCLE; FEMALE; FLEXOR MUSCLE; HEART FAILURE; HEART RATE; HUMAN; IATROGENIC DISEASE; KNEE; MALE; MUSCLE EXERCISE; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRAINING; NEUROMUSCULAR ELECTROSTIMULATION; NEUROMUSCULAR FUNCTION; RISK ASSESSMENT; SAFETY; SEMICONDUCTOR; SKELETAL MUSCLE; TELEMETRY; THIGH;

EID: 0345307732     PISSN: 00435325     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF03040887     Document Type: Article

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