Prolonged Electrical Muscle Stimulation Exercise Improves Strength, Peak VO2, and Exercise Capacity in Patients With Stable Chronic Heart Failure

Journal of Cardiac Failure

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 319-326

  Banerjee, Prithwish ^a   Caulfield, Brian ^b   Crowe, Louis ^c   Clark, Andrew L ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS COVENTRY AND WARWICKSHIRE NHS TRUST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

^c Biomedical Research Ltd   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cardiovascular exercise; muscle stimulation; physical fitness

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSSOVER PROCEDURE; ELECTROSTIMULATION THERAPY; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; HEART FAILURE; HEART REHABILITATION; HUMAN; LEG EXERCISE; LEG MUSCLE; LONG TERM CARE; MALE; MUSCLE EXCITATION; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE TRAINING; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUADRICEPS FEMORIS MUSCLE; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; THERAPY EFFECT; WALKING; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EXERCISE; FITNESS; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PROCEDURES; SKELETAL MUSCLE;

AGED; CHRONIC DISEASE; CROSS-OVER STUDIES; ELECTRIC STIMULATION THERAPY; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEART FAILURE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MUSCLE STRENGTH; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; PHYSICAL FITNESS; PILOT PROJECTS; QUADRICEPS MUSCLE;

EID: 65249102786     PISSN: 10719164     EISSN: 15328414     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cardfail.2008.11.005     Document Type: Article

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