Functional Rejuvenation in Aging and Neuromuscular Disorders
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Functional metrics of human muscles: decay with aging Paolo Gava (1), Ugo Carraro (1,2) (1) Laboratory of Translational Myology of the Interdepartmental Research Center of Myology, Department of Biomedical Science, University of Padova, Italy; (2) IRRCS Fondazione Ospedale San Camillo, Venezia, Italy E-mail: [email protected] The decline of the performance of the human muscle with aging is out of discussion. The rate of decline can be very well drawn from the decline of the world records of the master athletes in various track and field disciplines. Actually all track and field events are power tests and the performance of the athletes can be transformed into dimensionless parameter proportional to the power developed in carrying out the events. These are astonishingly linear in behavior and points to 0 power at 110 years of age. 1 For some of them (running events) the processing of the athletic results into power parameters associated with the age of the master athletes is simple; for the throwing events the dimensionless parameters are calculated with a two steps process; for the jumping events the processing is more problematic. In this area we are concentrating our present work because the jumping results (high jump) are not proportional to the power developed: this is proportional to the raising of the center of gravity of the athletes. 1. Gava P, Kern H, Carraro U. Age-associated power decline from running, jumping, and throwing male masters world records. Exp Aging Res 2015;41:115-35. doi: 10.1080/0361073X.2015.1001648.
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