Muscle mass in elderly boosted by combining resistance exercise and blood flow restriction

Friday, May 14, 2010 - 15:31 in Health & Medicine

Researchers have determined that moderately and temporarily restricting the flow of blood through muscles -- a practice adopted by bodybuilders who noticed that it made light weights feel heavier -- can be combined with low-level resistance exercise training to produce muscle-mass increases in older men.

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