EFFECTIVENESS OF 24 WEEKS OF WALKING WITH RESTRICTED BLOOD FLOW ON MUSCLE ACTIVATION AND STRENGTH IN OVERWEIGHT ELDERLY WOMEN WITH OSTEOPOROSIS: A RANDOMIZED CLINICAL TRIAL

A moderate effect size (ES, Cohen's d) was observed in knee extensor EMGs (ES=0.65) for CAM+RFS compared to CAM. [...]interventions based on the RFS method showed similar strength gains, however, elderly women can achieve long-term neuromuscular gains over 24 week Keywords: aging, aerobic exercise, vascular occlusion, electromyography. In turn, osteoporosis causes bone fragility, with a consequent increased risk of fractures due to aged-induced deterioration of bone tissue microarchitecture (Howe et al, 2011). [...]previous studies have reported the risk of some non-spine fractures (e.g. proximal humerus, ankle, and upper leg fracture) in older adults with excess adipose tissue (Kelly, Gilman, Boschiero & Ilich, 2019; Scott et al, 2016). [...]recognizing the comorbidities in elderly people (osteopenia/osteoporosis, dynapenia, and overweight/obesity) may help to guide an planned treatment as opposed to treating each single disease state (Kelly et al., 2019). According to (kneffel, Murlasits, Reed, Krieger, 2021), in a study carried out in Hungary, Qatar and the United States compared muscle strength and hypertrophic adaptations to resistance training programs carried out with different training frequencies in adults over 60 years of age and found that improvements in upper and lower limb strength were dependent on the number of training days and that the frequency of resistance training did not affect muscle hypertrophy.