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- Title
The "Muscle-Bone Unit" in Children and Adolescents.
- Authors
Schoenau, E.; Frost, H.M.
- Abstract
The article focuses on a study conducted at the University of Utah related to skeletal physiology which revealed that control of bone strength depends strongly on the largest mechanical loads on bones. Mechanical loads on bones deform or strain them and larger loads cause bigger strains. The largest voluntary loads on load-bearing bones come from muscle forces, not body weight. Thus momentary muscle strength strongly influences postnatal bone strength. Low-force activities done to exhaustion, such as long distance running, swimming and bicycling, increase muscle endurance but not bone strength. Maximal-force activities, such as weight lifting, or sports that involve violent accelerations of the body, put larger loads on bones than low-force exercise.
- Subjects
UTAH; SKELETAL maturity; MUSCLE strength; BONE growth; FATIGUE (Physiology); UNIVERSITY of Utah
- Publication
Calcified Tissue International, 2002, Vol 70, Issue 5, p405
- ISSN
0171-967X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00223-001-0048-8