Sentence examples for muscle strength rather from inspiring English sources

The effect of sarcopenia on cognition is related to low muscle strength rather than low muscle mass.

Short-term performance, such as raising from a chair, however, showed higher correlations with muscle strength rather than power [ 22].

Some, in fact, have suggested that the "best" measure should be based on muscle strength rather than on mass particularly in the context of cardiovascular disease risk.

The present study also showed that muscle strength rather than muscle mass at the lower limbs was associated with knee pain.

In the present study, although the association of quadriceps muscle strength and grip strength was moderate, quadriceps muscle strength rather than grip strength was significantly associated with knee pain.

48 In addition, our results suggest that the mechanism for improvement in cardiorespiratory fitness assessed by peak workload is most likely explained by better exercise tolerance due to testosterone-induced increases in muscle strength rather than changes in VO2.

Surface EMG does not evaluate muscle strength but, rather, it evaluates electrical activity promoted by recruitment of motor units.

Compressive stresses are generally better tolerated than tensile stresses; muscle strength and endurance (or rather the lack thereof) are also important contributors to stress lesions of bone.

Therefore, it seems that lean mass, rather than muscle strength, impacts on bone density.

However, given that we observed knee valgus in three-quarter of the cases where assessment was possible, one can speculate whether the overt valgus collapse often seen in females is a sex-specific consequence after the injury (eg, due to lower muscle strength and higher joint laxity) rather than a mechanism leading to the injury.

This suggests that area level factors may be more important for factors that affect the central nervous functioning rather than overall muscle strength.