Blood flow restriction pressure recommendations: A tale of two cuffs

Frontiers in Physiology

Volumn 4 SEP, Issue , 2013, Pages

  Loenneke, Jeremy P ^a   Fahs, Christopher A ^b   Rossow, Lindy M ^b   Thiebaud, Robert S ^a   Mattocks, Kevin T ^c   Abe, Takashi ^d   Bemben, Michael G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b FITCHBURG STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^d INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NYLON;

ARTERIAL PRESSURE; ARTERY OCCLUSION; ARTICLE; BLOOD FLOW RESTRICTION; BLOOD PRESSURE CUFF; BRACHIAL ARTERY; CARDIOVASCULAR FUNCTION; ELASTICITY; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; EXERCISE; HEMODYNAMIC PARAMETERS; HUMAN; LEG BLOOD FLOW; METHODOLOGY; REST; SUPINE POSITION; SYSTOLIC BLOOD PRESSURE; THIGH CIRCUMFERENCE; VENOUS STASIS;

EID: 84884562278     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1664042X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fphys.2013.00249     Document Type: Article

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