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Impact of Potential Physiological Changes due to COVID-19 Home Confinement on Athlete Health Protection in Elite Sports: a Call for Awareness in Sports Programming
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Factors influencing bilateral deficit and inter-limb asymmetry of maximal and explosive strength: motor task, outcome measure and muscle group
The purpose of the present study was to investigate the influence of strength outcome [maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) torque vs. rate of torque development (RTD)], motor task (unilateral vs. bilateral) an...
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Reproducibility and validity of the Italian version of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire in obese and diabetic patients
Aims of this study were to evaluate the agreement between the short and long versions of the International Physical Activity Questionnaire (IPAQ: Italian versions), their reproducibility (agreement and reliabi...
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Open AccessDirect and crossed effects of somatosensory electrical stimulation on motor learning and neuronal plasticity in humans
Sensory input can modify voluntary motor function. We examined whether somatosensory electrical stimulation (SES) added to motor practice (MP) could augment motor learning, interlimb transfer, and whether phys...
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Hip flexor muscle fatigue in patients with symptomatic femoroacetabular im**ement
Patients with symptomatic femoroacetabular im**ement (FAI) have considerable hip muscle weakness, in particular, hip flexion and hip adduction. In addition, they experience disabilities while performing prol...
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A follow-up of GH-dependent biomarkers during a 6-month period of the sporting season of male and female athletes
In order to verify the effects of the sporting season (entailing periods of training, competition, recovery, resting) on GH-dependent parameters in male and female athletes from different sporting disciplines,...
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Gender-related changes in body composition, muscle strength and power output after a short-term multidisciplinary weight loss intervention in morbid obesity
Obese men and women have notably different body composition, which contributes to a different functional motor impairment, but it is unknown whether they respond differently to the same intervention for body w...
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Gender variations of body composition, muscle strength and power output in morbid obesity
Motor capabilities are reduced in obese (OB) individuals, and this impairment may result also from quantitative variation of muscle mass due to alterations in body composition.
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Changes in body composition, physical performance and cardiovascular risk factors after a 3-week integrated body weight reduction program and after 1-y follow-up in severely obese men and women
To investigate the short- and medium-term (ie, at 1-y follow-up) effects of a hospital-based body weight reduction (BWR) program lasting 3 weeks in severely obese individuals.
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Postural instability of extremely obese individuals improves after a body weight reduction program entailing specific balance training
The purposes of this study were to compare postural stability between obese and lean subjects and to investigate the effect of a 3-week body weight reduction (BWR) program entailing specific balance training o...
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Neural activation of the triceps surae is impaired following 2 weeks of immobilization
The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of 2 weeks of ankle joint immobilization on triceps surae neural activation, with particular emphasis on the potential differences between the monoarticu...
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Leptin levels do not change following acute exercise in healthy adults and in obese children
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Effect of a 3-week body mass reduction program on body composition, muscle function and motor performance in pubertal obese boys and girls
The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of a multidisciplinary body mass reduction (BMR) program on body composition, muscle function and motor performance in 50 obese [mean body mass index (BMI):...
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Elderly obese women display the greatest improvement in stair climbing performance after a 3-week body mass reduction program
OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether stair climbing performance and body composition are similarly affected by a body mass reduction (BMR) program in obese individuals of different gender, age and body mass index (B...
