Resistance training in the early postoperative phase reduces hospitalization and leads to muscle hypertrophy in elderly hip surgery patients - A controlled, randomized study

Journal of the American Geriatrics Society

Volumn 52, Issue 12, 2004, Pages 2016-2022

  Suetta, Charlotte ^a,b   Magnusson, S Peter ^a   Rosted, Anna ^a   Aagaard, Per ^a   Jakobsen, Ane K ^a   Larsen, Lone H ^a   Duus, Benn ^a   Kjaer, Michael ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b BISPEBJERG HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Immobilization; Rehabilitation; Resistance training; Sarcopenia

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ELECTROSTIMULATION; EXERCISE; HIP ARTHROPLASTY; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMOBILIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MUSCLE FUNCTION; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; MUSCLE MASS; MUSCLE STRENGTH; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DAILY LIFE ACTIVITY; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; KINESIOTHERAPY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE ATROPHY; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

ACTIVITIES OF DAILY LIVING; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ARTHROPLASTY, REPLACEMENT, HIP; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMMOBILIZATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; MUSCULAR ATROPHY; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 16644369198     PISSN: 00028614     EISSN: 15325415     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1532-5415.2004.52557.x     Document Type: Article

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