Cardiac cycle-synchronized electrical muscle stimulator for lower limb training with the potential to reduce the heart's pumping workload.

The lower limb muscle may play an important role in decreasing the heart's pumping workload. Aging and inactivity cause atrophy and weakness of the muscle, leading to a loss of the heart-assisting role. An electrical lower limb muscle stimulator can prevent atrophy and weakness more effectively...

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Main Authors: Ken-Ichiro Sasaki, Hiroo Matsuse, Ryuji Akimoto, Shiro Kamiya, Toshio Moritani, Motoki Sasaki, Yuta Ishizaki, Masanori Ohtsuka, Takaharu Nakayoshi, Takafumi Ueno, Naoto Shiba, Yoshihiro Fukumoto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2017-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC5678724?pdf=render