Human Muscle Fatigue

by Williams; Craig

• ISBN13: 9780415453288
• ISBN10: 0415453283
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-08-04
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

When human muscle fatigues, athletic performance becomes impaired. For those individuals suffering muscle or metabolic diseases the effects of muscle fatigue can make everyday tasks difficult. Understanding the scientific processes responsible for skeletal muscle fatigue is therefore central to the study of the physiology of sport, exercise and health. Written by a team of leading international exercise scientists, this book explores the mechanisms of muscle fatigue and presents a comprehensive survey of current research on this important topic. Examining the wide variety of protocols, assessment methods and exercise models used to study muscle fatigue, the book explores the differential effects of fatigue as influenced by: age gender fitness and training the use of ergogenic aids medical conditions including cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy and glycogenosis. Human Muscle Fatigue covers both clinical and applied approaches in sport and exercise physiology and devotes an entire section to the conceptual framework underpinning research in this area, helping readers from a wide range of backgrounds to engage with the topic. Accessible and detailed, this book is a key text for students and practitioners working in exercise and sports science, medicine, physical therapy and health.

Author Biography

Craig A. Williams is Associate Professor and Co-Director of the Children's Health and Exercise Research Centre, School of Sport and Health Sciences at the University of Exeter, UK. Craig's research interests are within the area of children's fatigue and high-intensity exercise. Sbastien Ratel is Senior Lecturer and member of the Laboratory of Exercise Biology at the Universit Blaise Pascal, France. His current research interests include the use of sup13/supP-magnetic resonance spectroscopy to investigate the muscle metabolic responses of children during exercise, and muscle fatigue and recovery from high-intensity exercise in children.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. xiii
List of contributors	p. xiv
Preface	p. xvii
The conceptual framework of muscle fatigue	p. 1
Definitions of muscle fatigue	p. 3
Measurement methods of muscle fatigue	p. 17
Cellular mechanisms of skeletal muscle fatigue	p. 48
Fatigue and extraneous factors	p. 77
Muscle fatigue in children	p. 79
Muscle fatigue in elderly people	p. 103
Sex differences in muscle fatigue	p. 135
Fatigue and training status	p. 164
Ergogenic aids and fatigue during multiple-sprint exercise	p. 205
Fatigue and pathophysiology	p. 243
Fatigue and neuromuscular diseases	p. 245
Muscle fatigue in muscular dystrophies	p. 285
Fatigue and weakness in patients with inflammatory myopathies: dermatomyositis, polymyositis and inclusion body myositis	p. 313
Muscle fatigue in metabolic myopathies	p. 338
Index	p. 360
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