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physical exercise involving lifting weights to improve muscle performance

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2009), which include conventional home exercises, low back school programs, stretching exercises, and dynamic and concentric isokinetic exercises, decrease MODQ scores.

Effect of Upper-Extremity Strengthening Exercises on the Lumbar Strength, Disability and Pain of Patients with Chronic Low Back Pain: A Randomized Controlled Study

The effect of diverting activity on fatigue during isokinetic exercise using large muscle groups.

Classification of electromyographic intensity patterns after diverting activities

When we refer to isokinetic exercise, we mean "equal movement," that is, at the same rate of speed.

Runners, protect your knees

McCubbin JA, Shasby GB (1985) Effects of isokinetic exercise on adolescents with cerebral palsy.

Muscle strengthening is not effective in children and adolescents with cerebral palsy: a systematic review

Nevertheless, isokinetic exercise and assessment not only presents a scientific basis for the use of isokinetics, it also provides practical guidelines for applying isokinetics in clinical practice, particularly in the management of chronic injury.

Dance biomechanics: a tool for controlling health, fitness, and training

Use of ultrasound to increase effectiveness of isokinetic exercise for knee osteoarthritis.

Ultrasound in the management of osteoarthritis: Part I: a review of the current literature

Isokinetic exercise is a dynamic exercise in which the speed of motion is controlled by varying the resistance.

Exercise Rx for osteoarthritis

Recent trials investigating the influence of creatine on isokinetic torque (elbow flexion) did not find significant effects (16,21), but earlier studies in the laboratory setting have shown that supplementation with 20 to 40 g per day for four to seven days may improve isokinetic torque force production and attenuate the decline in power during repetitive isokinetic exercise (6).

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