Sentences with phrase «disuse atrophy»

When recovering from an illness or injury, it's likely that some form of disuse atrophy has occurred.

Nutritional strategies to attenuate muscle disuse atrophy.

Most importantly, avoiding common spine movement, such as rotation, could trigger disuse atrophy, i.e. a weakening and eventual wasting of the muscles which occurs when muscles are no as active as usual.

While disuse atrophy generally is caused by immobility, such as when a limb is in a cast, it is also known to develop if people stop performing their usual activities.

However, a recent systematic review suggested that the weakness observed in these case - control studies might result from disuse atrophy and might not therefore be risk factor prospectively (Rathleff et al. 2014).

Herein, I present evidence that sarcopenia is not a phenomenon of aging per se, but rather of disuse atrophy.

Muscle disuse atrophy (when muscles shrink because they're not being used — a condition typically affecting astronauts and bedridden people) has also been associated with elevated myostatin levels [15,23]-- and it may be responsible for the differences in muscle and fat mass between males and females [2].

Skeletal muscles of Scyl1 -LRB-- / --RRB- mice displayed neurogenic atrophy, fiber type switching, and disuse atrophy.

Muscle atrophy occurs in two basic ways: (1) Disuse atrophy, in which muscles waste away due to lack of movement and exercise, or (2) Neurogenic atrophy, in which the muscles waste away due to disease or injury.

Disuse atrophy, the more common form, can occur in as little as 72 hours with smaller muscle groups.

Satellite cells can also differentiate into cells with adipocyte features, and this greater degree of plasticity may explain elements of disuse atrophy, sarcopenia and consequently aspects of non-communicable disease (Dodson et al. 2010).

There are some indications that having osteoarthritis is associated with lower hip extension moments, although whether this results from pain inhibition, disuse atrophy, or a pre-existing state of inactivity or weakness that predisposed the individual to osteoarthritis is unclear.

While it may seem that disuse atrophy is likely the cause of such reduced hip extension moments following injury, other factors may be relevant.

As such, this can lead to muscle disuse atrophy.

At this stage, the post-operative pain has largely resolved and the goal is muscle strengthening and prevention of disuse atrophy.

Veterinarians believe that that could be due to muscle wasting (disuse atrophy) or poor muscle circulation when animals are confined to a single position.