Effects of Power-velocity Muscle Characteristics During Ageing

Universitaire Ziekenhuizen KU Leuven

Status: Completed

Conditions: Sarcopenia

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02692612

s58633

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this project is to investigate the age-related differences in force-velocity muscle characteristics during isolated knee extensions variable in speed and load, during cyclic movements on a usual and recumbent bike variable in speed and velocity development and a functional test battery with healthy participants aged between 20-80 years.

Enrollment: 98 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 20 to 80 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• healthy volunteers age 20 to 80 years

Exclusion criteria

• Knee or hip prothesis
• Systematic training
• Cardiovascular disease
• Acute lower back pain
• Acute knee pain
• Dementia

Trial design

98 participants in 3 patient groups

Young

Middle-Aged

Old