Exploring the utility of ultrasound to assess disuse atrophy in different muscles of the lower leg.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Skeletal muscle is a highly plastic tissue crucial for many functions associated with whole-body health across the life course. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is the current gold standard for measuring skeletal muscle size. However, MRI is expensive, and access to facilities is often limited. B-mode ultrasonography (U/S) has been proposed as a potential alternative to MRI for the assessment of muscle size. However, to date, no work has explored the utility of U/S to assess disuse muscle atrophy (DMA) across muscles with different atrophy susceptibility profiles, an omission which may limit the clinical application of previous work.

Methods

To address this significant knowledge gap, 10 young men (22 ±  years, 24.1 ± 2.3 kg/m²) underwent 15-day unilater

SUBMITTER: Hardy EJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11634512 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature