Evaluation of rehabilitation exercise effects by using gradation-based skeletal muscle echo intensity in older individuals: a one-group before-and-after trial study.
Akito YoshikoTakashi KajiTsuyoshi KozukaTakayuki SawazakiHiroshi AkimaPublished in: BMC geriatrics (2021)
Several months' rehabilitation exercise affected both lower and higher EI in older men and women. This result suggests that rehabilitation exercise changes muscle composition by increasing contractile muscle tissue and decreasing fat and connective tissues.
Keyphrases
- skeletal muscle
- high intensity
- physical activity
- resistance training
- insulin resistance
- community dwelling
- clinical trial
- adipose tissue
- magnetic resonance
- study protocol
- gene expression
- magnetic resonance imaging
- randomized controlled trial
- phase iii
- metabolic syndrome
- fatty acid
- computed tomography
- contrast enhanced
- diffusion weighted imaging