OBJECTIVE To determine the effect of aerobic retraining as rehabilitation after short-term leg immobilization on leg strength, leg work capacity, leg lean mass, leg muscle fibre type composition and leg capillary supply, in young and older men.Subjects and design: Seventeen young (23 ± 1 years) and 15 older (68 ± 1 [standard error of the mean; SEM] years) men had one leg immobilized for 2 weeks...

abstract study design: a cross-sectional non-experimental study. objectives: to collectively detect the reliability and feasibility of the five types of clinical tests that have been used to measure endurance of the trunk muscles in subjects with and without low back pain (lbp) and identify the sensitivity of each test to predict the probability of the occurrence oflbp. background: testing spin...

Background: Major leg wound complications after coronary artery bypass graft procedures are infrequent and few are reported in the litrature.We present our experience in treating 30 patients with major leg wound complications after coronary revascularization procedures. Materials and Methods: A retrospective review of 2100 bypass procedures with saphenous veingraft performed over a 5-years p...

This study was aimed at examining the gender and age-related differences of dynamic balance based on four stepping tests for the elderly. One hundred and eleven healthy subjects aged 60-85 were classified into four age groups (60-64, 65-69, 70-74, and 75-85) to examine age-related differences. They conducted stepping motions lasting 20-sec, including both-leg stepping right/left, both-leg stepp...

Campylobacter jejuni is the major human food-borne pathogen. Its bipolar flagella are heavily O-glycosylated with microbial sialic acids and essential for its motility pathogenicity. However, both glycosylation of exact contribution legionaminic acid (Leg) to flagellar activity poorly understood. Herein, we report development a metabolic labeling method Leg on bacterial probes based azide-modif...

Background: Post-activation potentiation refers to the acute and temporary enhancement of performance in explosive movements after performing a conditioning activity, such as plyometrics. The current study aimed investigate effects horizontal leg bounding on 30 m acceleration performance, 5 split times, sprint kinematics (step frequency length, flight contact time). Methods: Fourteen young spri...