Examples of strength-conditioning in the following topics:
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- In the absence of complications, pregnant women should continue aerobic and strength training exercise for the duration of gestation.
- The Clinical Practice Obstetrics Committee of Canada recommends that "all women without contraindications should be encouraged to participate in aerobic and strength-conditioning exercises as part of a healthy lifestyle during their pregnancy."
- Physicians recommend moderate exercise during pregnancy, including strength-training.
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- A number of studies have examined the health benefits of aerobic and/or strength training in improving health and treating health issues.
- By increasing muscular strength and improving balance, weight training can reduce falls by elderly persons as well.
- For many people in rehabilitation or with an acquired disability, such as following stroke or orthopaedic surgery, strength training for weak muscles is a key factor to optimize recovery.
- For people with such a health condition, their strength training is likely to need to be designed by an appropriate health professional, such as a physiotherapist.One side-effect of any intense exercise is increased levels of dopamine, serotonin, and norepinephrine, neurotransmitters that can help to improve mood and counter feelings of depression.
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- Eventually, the fracture gap is bridged by the hyaline cartilage and woven bone, restoring some of its original strength.
- Eventually, all of the woven bone and cartilage of the original fracture callus is replaced by trabecular bone, restoring most of the bone's original strength.
- Eventually, the fracture callus is remodeled into a new shape that closely duplicates the bone's original shape and strength.
- The remodeling phase takes three to five years depending on factors such as age or general condition.
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- Anabolic-androgenic steroids (AAS) were first isolated, identified and synthesized in the 1930's, and are now used therapeutically in medicine to induce bone growth, stimulate appetite, induce male puberty and treat chronic wasting conditions, such as cancer and AIDS.
- Anabolic steroids also increase muscle mass and physical strength, and are therefore used by athletes and bodybuilders alike to enhance strength or physique.
- Despite these side effects, anabolic steroids can be used therapeutically to stimulate bone growth and appetite, and treat chronic wasting conditions associated with cancer and AIDS, though at much lower dosages than those used for performance enhancement.
- These effects can boost confidence and strength, leading the user to overlook the potential serious long-term damage that these substances can cause.
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- Diverticulosis is the condition of having outpocketings in the colon wall due to weaknesses of the muscle layer, called diverticula.
- If these diverticula become inflamed or infected, the condition is referred to as diverticulitis .
- When symptoms do appear in a person over 40 years of age, it is important to exclude more dangerous conditions with similar symptoms such as cancer of the colon or rectum.
- The strength of the colon decreases with age in all parts of the colon, except the ascending colon.
- The fall in tensile strength with age is due to a decrease in the integrity of connective tissue.
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- Less-specific symptoms may include pain in the wrists or hands and loss of grip strength.
- Carpal tunnel syndrome can be associated with any condition that causes pressure on the median nerve at the wrist.
- Some common conditions that can lead to CTS include obesity, oral contraceptives, hypothyroidism, arthritis, diabetes, and trauma.
- Less-specific symptoms may include pain in the wrists or hands and loss of grip strength.
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- When a body region is inflamed, the areolar tissue in the area soaks up the excess fluid as a sponge and the affected area swells and becomes puffy, a condition called edema.
- With the tensile strength of collagen, this tissue forms tendons, aponeurosis and ligaments.
- It has relatively high compressive strength, but poor tensile strength, and very low shear stress strength.
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- Muscle atrophy is the decrease in muscle strength due to a decrease in muscle mass, or the amount of muscle fibers.
- A range of stimuli can increase the volume of muscle cells, including strength training or anaerobic training.
- These changes occur as an adaptive response that serves to increase the ability to generate force or resist fatigue in anaerobic conditions.
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- A spasm may lead to muscle strains or tears of tendons and ligaments, if the force of the spasm exceeds the tensile strength of the underlying connective tissues, such as with a particularly forceful spasm, or in the case of weakened connective tissues.
- Spasmodic muscle contraction may be due to a large number of medical conditions, including the dystonias.
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- Plasticity: The synapses between parallel fibers and Purkinje cells and between mossy fibers and deep nuclear cells are both susceptible to modification of their strength.
- One of the most extensively studied cerebellar learning tasks is the eyeblink conditioning paradigm.
- A blink response is elicited when a neutral conditioned stimulus, such as a tone or a light, is repeatedly paired with an unconditioned stimulus, such as an air puff.
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many conditioned-unconditioned stimuli (CS-US) pairings, an association is
formed whereby a learned blink, or conditioned response, occurs and precedes US onset.