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Blood Flow Restricted Exercise and Skeletal Muscle Health

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Specialty Orthopedics
Date 2009 Mar 24
PMID 19305199
Citations 89
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Abstract

For nearly half a century, high mechanical loading and mechanotransduction pathways have guided exercise recommendations for inducing muscle hypertrophy. However, emerging research on low-intensity exercise with blood flow restriction challenges this paradigm. This article will describe the BFR exercise model and discuss its efficacy, potential mechanisms, and clinical viability.

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