The Princess Alexandra Hospital, NHS Trust, Trauma and Orthopaedics, United Kingdom
Research Article
Principle of nutritional supplementation and blood-flow restriction training to enhance musculoskeletal rehabilitation in patients with arthritis
Author(s): Frankie Fan*, Robert A Grant, Kar Teoh, Paul Y F Lee and Alun Yewlett
Resistance training forms a key component of holistic care within orthopaedics. Blood-Flow Restriction Training (BFRT) is an increasingly popular alternative technique to stimulate comparable muscular gains to traditional resistance training. Indeed, BFRT may be more suitable for orthopaedic populations who cannot tolerate the high intensity of traditional resistance training. BFRT appears to stimulate multiple physiological changes to induce Muscular Protein Synthesis (MPS). Specifically, increased anabolic signalling within the akt/mTOR pathway appears to be a central mediator. Nutritional supplementation is a common method to support muscular gains in resistance training. Protein and creatine are amongst those most well documented in the literature. Protein supplementation may enhance muscular gains by potentiation of MPS via the akt/mTOR pathway when combined with resista.. View More»
DOI:
10.4172/2167-7921.2022.11.057
