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A Novel Device to Preserve Physical Activities of Daily Living in Healthy Older People

scientific article published on 23 December 2014

A stimulator for functional activation of denervated muscles.

scientific article published on March 2002

Aerobic Exercise and Pharmacological Treatments Counteract Cachexia by Modulating Autophagy in Colon Cancer

scientific article published on 31 May 2016

Age-Associated Loss of OPA1 in Muscle Impacts Muscle Mass, Metabolic Homeostasis, Systemic Inflammation, and Epithelial Senescence.

scientific article

Age-associated power decline from running, jumping, and throwing male masters world records.

scientific article published on March 2015

Age-dependent uncoupling of mitochondria from Ca2⁺ release units in skeletal muscle.

scientific article published on 16 October 2015

Assessment of a newly developed, active pneumatic-driven, sensorimotor test and training device

scientific article published on 15 December 2014

Atrophy, ultra-structural disorders, severe atrophy and degeneration of denervated human muscle in SCI and Aging. Implications for their recovery by Functional Electrical Stimulation, updated 2017.

scientific article published on 13 April 2017

Atrophy-resistant fibers in permanent peripheral denervation of human skeletal muscle

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Atrophy/hypertrophy cell signaling in muscles of young athletes trained with vibrational-proprioceptive stimulation

scientific article published on 01 December 2011

Augmentation of Voluntary Locomotor Activity by Transcutaneous Spinal Cord Stimulation in Motor-Incomplete Spinal Cord-Injured Individuals

scientific article

Autophagy impairment in muscle induces neuromuscular junction degeneration and precocious aging.

scientific article

Biology of Muscle Atrophy and of its Recovery by FES in Aging and Mobility Impairments: Roots and By-Products

scientific article

Comparison of Twitch Responses During Current- or Voltage-Controlled Transcutaneous Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation.

scientific article published in October 2015

Compliance monitoring of home based electrical stimulation training of elderly subjects

scientific article published on 07 September 2013

Consensus of clinical neurorestorative progress in patients with complete chronic spinal cord injury.

scientific article published on 9 October 2014

Dermal papillae flattening of thigh skin in Syndrome

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Determination of the chronaxie and rheobase of denervated limb muscles in conscious rabbits

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Dynamic Echomyography Shows That FES in Peripheral Denervation does not Hamper Muscle Reinnervation.

scientific article published on 7 September 2013

Editorial: The EJTM Special "Mobility in Elderly".

scientific article published on 25 August 2015

Effects of 8 weeks of vibration training at different frequencies (1 or 15 Hz) in senior sportsmen on torque and force development and of 1 year of training on muscle fibers

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Effects of Electrical Stimulation on Skeletal Muscle of Old Sedentary People.

scientific article published in January 2018

Effects of Leg-Press Training With Moderate Vibration on Muscle Strength, Pain, and Function After Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Randomized Controlled Trial

scientific article published on 4 January 2016

Effects of transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation on voluntary locomotor activity in an incomplete spinal cord injured individual

scientific article

Electrical stimulation counteracts muscle decline in seniors.

scientific article

Electrical stimulation of denervated muscles: first results of a clinical study

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Evaluation of FES-induced knee joint moments in paraplegics with denervated muscles

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Functional electrical stimulation in paraplegic spastic patients

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

Functional electrical stimulation of long-term denervated, degenerated human skeletal muscle: estimating activation using T2-parameter magnetic resonance imaging methods.

scientific article published in August 2008

Funktionelle Elektrostimulation Paraplegischer Patienten.

scientific article published on 8 July 2014

History, Mechanisms and Clinical Value of Fibrillation Analyses in Muscle Denervation and Reinnervation by Single Fiber Electromyography and Dynamic Echomyography.

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Home-Based Functional Electrical Stimulation for Long-Term Denervated Human Muscle: History, Basics, Results and Perspectives of the Vienna Rehabilitation Strategy

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

Human lumbar cord circuitries can be activated by extrinsic tonic input to generate locomotor-like activity.

scientific article published on 6 March 2007

Hypertrophy and transformation of muscle fibers in paraplegic patients

scientific article published on 01 March 1997

In complete SCI patients, long-term functional electrical stimulation of permanent denervated muscles increases epidermis thickness.

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

In vivo assessment of conduction velocity and refractory period of denervated muscle fibers

scientific article published on 01 June 2005

Lifelong physical exercise delays age-associated skeletal muscle decline.

scientific article published on 18 February 2014

Long-term denervation in humans causes degeneration of both contractile and excitation-contraction coupling apparatus, which is reversible by functional electrical stimulation (FES): a role for myofiber regeneration?

scientific article published on 01 September 2004

Long-term high-level exercise promotes muscle reinnervation with age.

scientific article published in April 2014

Mechano-sensitivity of normal and long term denervated soleus muscle of the rat

scientific article published on 01 March 2008

Modification of spasticity by transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation in individuals with incomplete spinal cord injury.

scientific article

Monitoring of muscle and bone recovery in spinal cord injury patients treated with electrical stimulation using three-dimensional imaging and segmentation techniques: methodological assessment

scientific article published on 01 March 2011

Motor control in the human spinal cord and the repair of cord function.

scientific article

Muscle biopsies show that FES of denervated muscles reverses human muscle degeneration from permanent spinal motoneuron lesion

scientific article published on 01 May 2005

Muscle fiber regeneration in human permanent lower motoneuron denervation: relevance to safety and effectiveness of FES-training, which induces muscle recovery in SCI subjects

scientific article published on 01 March 2005

Muscle, tendons, and bone: structural changes during denervation and FES treatment

scientific article published on 01 September 2011

One year of home-based daily FES in complete lower motor neuron paraplegia: recovery of tetanic contractility drives the structural improvements of denervated muscle

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Personal computer supported eight channel surface stimulator for paraplegic walking: first results

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

Physical Activity in Elderly

scientific article

Physical Exercise in Aging: Nine Weeks of Leg Press or Electrical Stimulation Training in 70 Years Old Sedentary Elderly People

scientific article

Physical exercise in aging human skeletal muscle increases mitochondrial calcium uniporter expression levels and affects mitochondria dynamics.

scientific article published on December 2016

Posterior root-muscle reflexes elicited by transcutaneous stimulation of the human lumbosacral cord.

scientific article published in March 2007

Quantitative color three-dimensional computer tomography imaging of human long-term denervated muscle

scientific article published on 01 February 2010

Recovery from muscle weakness by exercise and FES: lessons from Masters, active or sedentary seniors and SCI patients

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Recovery of Tetanic Contractility of Denervated Muscle: A Step Toward a Walking Aid for Foot Drop.

scientific article published on 7 September 2013

Relationship Between Strength Parameters and Functional Performance Tests in Patients With Severe Knee Osteoarthritis

scientific article published on 07 March 2019

Safe Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulator Designed for the Elderly

scientific article published on March 1, 2011

Sensitivity of body sway parameters during quiet standing to manipulation of support surface size

scientific article published on September 2010

Severely Atrophic Human Muscle Fibers With Nuclear Misplacement Survive Many Years of Permanent Denervation

scientific article published on 13 June 2016

Stable muscle atrophy in long-term paraplegics with complete upper motor neuron lesion from 3- to 20-year SCI

scientific article published on 23 October 2007

Standing up with denervated muscles in humans using functional electrical stimulation

scientific article published on 01 May 1999

Stimulation parameter optimization for FES supported standing up and walking in SCI patients.

scientific article published in March 2005

Structural differentiation of skeletal muscle fibers in the absence of innervation in humans

scholarly article

The Authors Respond

The Ejtm Specials "The Long-Term Denervated Muscle".

scientific article published on 27 March 2014

The Vienna functional electrical stimulation system for restoration of walking functions in spastic paraplegia

scientific article published on 01 March 2002

To Reverse Atrophy of Human Muscles in Complete SCI Lower Motor Neuron Denervation by Home-Based Functional Electrical Stimulation

scientific article published on 01 January 2018

Training program and additional electric muscle stimulation for patellofemoral pain syndrome: a pilot study

scientific article published on 01 July 2008

Transcriptional profile of denervated vastus lateralis muscle derived from a patient 8 months after spinal cord injury: a case-report

scientific article published on 01 July 2011

Treadmill training with partial body weight support in nonambulatory patients with cerebral palsy.

scientific article

Two years of Functional Electrical Stimulation by large surface electrodes for denervated muscles improve skin epidermis in SCI.

scientific article published in January 2018

Use it or Lose It: Tonic Activity of Slow Motoneurons Promotes Their Survival and Preferentially Increases Slow Fiber-Type Groupings in Muscles of Old Lifelong Recreational Sportsmen

scientific article published on September 2016

Walking performance, medical outcomes and patient training in FES of innervated muscles for ambulation by thoracic-level complete paraplegics.

scientific article published on March 2008

[Diagnosis, first aid and classification of muscle injuries in sports medicine]

scientific article published on 01 September 1998