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Treatment strategies and training regimens, which induce longitudinal muscle growth and increase the muscles’ length range of active force exertion, are important to improve muscle function and to reduce muscle strain injuries in clinical populations and
Annika Kruse +5 more
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Prophylaxis and treatment of infection in long bones using an antibiotic-loaded ceramic coating with interlocking intramedullary nails [PDF]
Background: The study was done (1) to report on our recent experience with antibiotic-loaded calcium sulfate-coated interlocking intramedullary nails (CS-IMN) for infection prevention or infection eradication and (2) to compare the efficacy of CS-IMN ...
E.-A. Downey +6 more
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Muscle strength and knee range of motion after femoral lengthening: 2- to 5-year follow-up
Background and purpose — Femoral lengthening may result in decrease in knee range of motion (ROM) and quadriceps and hamstring muscle weakness. We evaluated preoperative and postoperative knee ROM, hamstring muscle strength, and quadriceps muscle ...
Anil Bhave +5 more
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Objective. To investigate the characteristics of lengthening the lower limb in its proximal portion in patients with subjectively short stature and varus deformity.Material and methods.
G. V. Diachkova +5 more
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Lengthening by distraction osteogenesis in congenital shortening of metacarpals
Objective: The aim of this study was to present the results of seven cases of metacarpal lengthening by distraction osteogenesis and to discuss the ideal daily rate of distraction.\r\nMethods: Metacarpal lengthening was performed by distraction ...
Mehmet Bulut +5 more
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Brachymetacarpia: features and surgical treatment
The purpose - to study the morphofunctional changes of upper extremities in patients with brachymetacarpia. Material and methods. The results of the examination and surgical treatment by distraction osteosynthesis of six patients (10 hands, shortening of
V. I. Zavarukhin +2 more
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K+ channel blockers like 3,4-diaminopyridine (DAP) can double isometric muscle force. Functional movements require more complex concentric and eccentric contractions, however the effects of K+ channel blockade on these types of contractions in situ are ...
Michelle eMoyer +2 more
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Temporal markers of prosodic boundaries in children's speech production [PDF]
It is often thought that the ability to use prosodic features accurately is mastered in early childhood. However, research to date has produced conflicting evidence, notably about the development of children's ability to mark prosodic boundaries.
Dankovicová, J. +3 more
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Background: Although the ingestion of total omega–3 fatty acids (omega–3) is positively related with muscular strength in older persons, little is known about the effect of omega–3 plasma levels on muscular function before and after exercise in young men.
Eisuke Ochi +2 more
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Vowel duration, compression and lengthening in stressed syllables in Italian [PDF]
The focus of this study is on temporal organization, specifically of vowel duration, in stressed syllables in (standard) Italian. We investigate possible compression effects on the duration of stressed vowels according to wordposition (final, penult and ...
Hajek, John +3 more
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