Background: Lack of mobility and motor impairments can intensify mental health problems in the elderly. Muscle weakness is one of the most important cause of fall in the old individuals. Muscular performance is regarded as one of the significant components of quality of life in older adults. Aim: This study aimed to investigate the effect of resistance training using Thera-Band on muscular stre...

Objetivo: Determinar cuáles son los efectos que tiene el fallo muscular en desarrollo de la hipertrofia entrenamiento contra resistencia. Métodos: Estudio tipo revisión sistemática, es decir, enfoque cualitativo y diseño no experimental. Se realizó una búsqueda sistemática cinco bases datos (Pubmed, Google Académico, ScienceDirect, Scopus, Sportdiscus). Después analizar 405 estudios, fue precis...

case presentation a 28-year old chinese female was treated with carbimazole (cmz) for graves’ disease with hyperthyroidism. two weeks later, she developed myalgia and proximal muscle weakness. investigations showed evidence of myopathy. cmz was stopped and rapid improvement of clinical condition and biochemical parameters ensued. conclusions rapid decrement of thyroid hormone level is recognize...

objective we describe three patients with very severe spinal muscular atrophy (sma) presented with reduced fetal movement in utero, profound hypotonia, severe weakness and respiratory insufficiency at birth. in all infants, electrodiagnostic studies were compatible with a neurogenic pattern. in genetic studies, all cases had homozygous deletions of exons 7 and 8 of survival motor neuron (smn) a...

A workshop was convened on the topic of Cardiomyopathy associated with Muscular Dystrophy in Tucson, Arizona, 28–30 September 2003, sponsored by the Muscular Dystrophy Association. Workshop participants from North America, Europe and Australia set as goals to understand the pathologic basis of cardiomyopathy associated with muscular dystrophy and to review treatment strategies for cardiomyopath...

Spinal muscular atrophy (SMA) is a neuromuscular disorder characterized by degeneration of alpha motor neurons resulting in hypotonia, progressive muscular weakness and atrophy.30 Spinal muscular atrophy is one of the leading hereditary causes of infant mortality,31 it comprises the second most common fatal progressive diseases after cystic fibrosis.28 Spinal muscular atrophy is the most common...

The post-polio syndrome (PPS) is an entity characterized for an episode of muscular weakness and/or abnormal muscular fatigue in individuals that had presented acute polio years before. We report the case of PPS in a patient, 40 years, that thirty-five years after had had paralytic poliomyelitis, developed new symptoms of fatigue, muscular atrophy, dyspnea, difficulties in deambulation and musc...