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RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL
Lachlan Giles, Kate E Webster, Jodie McClelland, Jill L Cook
BACKGROUND: Quadriceps strengthening exercises are part of the treatment of patellofemoral pain (PFP), but the heavy resistance exercises may aggravate knee pain. Blood flow restriction (BFR) training may provide a low-load quadriceps strengthening method to treat PFP. METHODS: Seventy-nine participants were randomly allocated to a standardised quadriceps strengthening (standard) or low-load BFR. Both groups performed 8 weeks of leg press and leg extension, the standard group at 70% of 1 repetition maximum (1RM) and the BFR group at 30% of 1RM...
December 2017: British Journal of Sports Medicine
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Kohei Koga, Giannina Descalzi, Tao Chen, Hyoung-Gon Ko, Jinshan Lu, Shermaine Li, Junehee Son, TaeHyun Kim, Chuljung Kwak, Richard L Huganir, Ming-Gao Zhao, Bong-Kiun Kaang, Graham L Collingridge, Min Zhuo
No abstract text is available yet for this article.
May 20, 2015: Neuron
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JOURNAL ARTICLE
Anna Lembke
Prescription opioid abuse is an epidemic in the United States. In 2010, there were reportedly as many as 2.4 million opioid abusers in this country, and the number of new abusers had increased by 225% between 1992 and 2000. Sixty percent of the opioids that are abused are obtained directly or..
October 25, 2012: New England Journal of Medicine
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