Trial reportEuropean journal of applied physiology2005
Differences in the force/endurance relationship between young and older men.
Trial report in European journal of applied physiology, 2005. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
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- Age-related differences in muscle fatigue vary by contraction type: a meta-analysis.Physical therapy · 2011Pooled it
- Systematic review and meta-analysis of skeletal muscle fatigue in old age.Medicine and science in sports and exercise · 2011Pooled it
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- Comparison of maximal muscle strength of elbow flexors and knee extensors between younger and older men with the same level of daily activity.Clinical interventions in aging · 2013Trial
- Fatigue-induced alterations in the spatial distribution of lumbar erector spinae activity in older versus young adults.European journal of applied physiology · 2025Article
- A knowledge-based equation of daily work exposure.PloS one · 2025Article
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- Does the early phase of aging affect the morphology of biceps brachii and torque and total work of elbow flexors in healthy volunteers?Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2023Article
- Muscle Fiber Conduction Velocity Correlates With the Age at Onset in Mild FSHD Cases.Frontiers in physiology · 2021Article
- The Effects of Performance Fatigability on Postural Control and Rehabilitation in the Older Patient.Current geriatrics reports · 2016Article
- Mechanisms of in vivo muscle fatigue in humans: investigating age-related fatigue resistance with a computational model.The Journal of physiology · 2016Article
- Genome-wide linkage scan for contraction velocity characteristics of knee musculature in the Leuven Genes for Muscular Strength Study.Physiological genomics · 2008Article
- Influence of muscle architecture on the torque and power-velocity characteristics of young and elderly men.European journal of applied physiology · 2007Article
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Abstract
The aim of the present study was to ascertain if in six young (23-35 years) and in six older (70-72 years) healthy men matched for comparable absolute and specific maximal force of the dominant elbow flexors, differences in isometric endurance, myoelectrical fatigability, and shortening velocity are still recognizable. To assess the specific force, the muscle cross sectional area (CSA) was determined from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) scans. The performance of the elbow flexors was studied by assessing the isometric endurance times (ET) at different percentages of maximal isometric contraction (MVC), the average muscle fibre conduction velocity of action potentials (CV), and the median frequency (MDF) of the surface electromyogram (sEMG) of the biceps brachii. Finally, the torque-velocity curve was assessed by means of maximal isokinetic contractions at six fixed angular velocities. All data were expressed as the mean (SD). The results showed that: (1) the ET was longer in the older subjects at the highest levels of isometric contraction, independently from the absolute force; (2) the modifications of muscle fibre CV during isometric effort progressed less rapidly in the older than the younger groups, as did those of MDF; and (3) at the same angular velocity, the older subjects exerted less absolute force than the younger subjects. These results suggest an impairment of the neuromuscular system of older men, which is less powerful and less fatigable than that of young men.
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