Deans' stroke musings: Blood flow-restricted exercise may counteract age-related muscle decay

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

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My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Thursday, December 21, 2023

Blood flow-restricted exercise may counteract age-related muscle decay

Since stroke survivors are not healthy adults ask your doctor when research on this will be done on stroke survivors. No answer, you don't have a functioning stroke doctor.

And with your muscle atrophy post stroke you need solutions. Hopefully your doctor is competent enough to have EXACT stroke protocols for that. S/he has had over 10 years to come up with a solution. Did they?

muscle atrophy (23 posts to July 2013)

Blood flow-restricted exercise may counteract age-related muscle decay

Key takeaways:

Low-load blood flow-restricted resistance exercise may promote muscle fiber hypertrophy in healthy older adults.
This type of training may help combat age-related muscle decay.

Published results showed low-load blood flow-restricted resistance exercise may stimulate skeletal muscle growth, improve muscle function and counteract muscle decay in older adults.

Researchers analyzed muscle fiber morphology, integrated muscle protein synthesis, muscle stem cells, myonuclear content and muscle functional capacity in 12 healthy adults (mean age of 67 years) who were randomized to 6 weeks of low-load blood flow-restricted resistance exercise (BFRRE). They also analyzed a non-exercise control cohort of 11 patients (mean age of 63 years).

Exercising Adults — Low-load blood flow-restricted resistance exercise may promote muscle fiber hypertrophy in healthy older adults. *Image: Adobe Stock*

Researchers found BFRRE was effective in enhancing muscle maximal strength and muscle strength-endurance capacity. BFRRE also produced substantial hypertrophy of type I and type II muscle fibers. According to the study, BFRRE increased the cross-sectional area of type I fibers by 18.1% and type II fibers by 22.2%. Patients in the control group who did not undergo BFRRE saw a –3.7% change in type I fiber cross-sectional area and a –4.8% change in type II fiber cross-sectional area.

“Notably, this magnitude of muscle fiber hypertrophy was achieved with a modest volume of work and with very limited time spent during exercise, emphasizing the potential of BFRRE as a potent strategy to promote muscle hypertrophy in older individuals,” the researchers wrote in the study.

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