Muscle forces or gravity: What predominates mechanical loading on bone?: Introduction

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Beck, Belinda R
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2009
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This paper describes the background, rationale, significance and objective of the recent American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) symposium entitled "Muscle Forces or Gravity-What Predominates Mechanical Loading on Bone?" (55th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, May 28, 2008) and introduces a series of papers representing the positions taken by three of the speakers at that symposium. Our goal is to reinvigorate discussion on a topic that will inform many, provoke some and, most importantly, stimulate ideas that will encourage progress in the field of exercise prescription for bone.This paper describes the background, rationale, significance and objective of the recent American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) symposium entitled "Muscle Forces or Gravity-What Predominates Mechanical Loading on Bone?" (55th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, May 28, 2008) and introduces a series of papers representing the positions taken by three of the speakers at that symposium. Our goal is to reinvigorate discussion on a topic that will inform many, provoke some and, most importantly, stimulate ideas that will encourage progress in the field of exercise prescription for bone.
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Journal Title
Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise
Volume
41
Issue
11
Copyright Statement
© 2009 LWW. This is a non-final version of an article published in final form in Medicine and Science in Sports and Exercise, Volume 41 - Issue 11 - pp 2033-2036. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal link for access to the definitive, published version.
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Sports science and exercise
Sports science and exercise not elsewhere classified
Medical physiology