Beretta Piccoli, Matteo and Calanni, Luca and Negro, Massimo and Ricci, Giulia and Bettio, Cinzia and Barbero, Marco and Berardinelli, Angela and Siciliano, Gabriele and Tupler, Rossella and Soldini, Emiliano and Cescon, Corrado and D'Antona, Giuseppe (2021) Increased resistance towards fatigability in patients with facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy. Eur J Appl Physiol.
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Abstract
Purpose In facioscapulohumeral muscular dystrophy (FSHD) fatigue is a major complaint. We aimed to investigate whether during isometric sustained elbow flexions, performance fatigability indexes differ in patients with FSHD with respect to healthy controls. Methods Seventeen patients with FSHD and seventeen healthy controls performed two isometric flexions of the dominant biceps brachii at 20% of their maximal voluntary contraction (MVC) for 2 min and then at 60% MVC until exhaustion. Muscle weakness was characterized as a percentage of predicted values. Maximal voluntary strength, endurance time and performance fatigability indices (mean frequency of the power spectrum (MNF), muscle fiber conduction velocity (CV) and fractal dimension (FD)), extracted from the surface electromyogram signal (sEMG) were compared between the two groups. Results In patients with FSHD, maximal voluntary strength was 68.7% of predicted value (p < 0.01). Compared to healthy controls, FSHD patients showed reduced MVC (p < 0.001; r = 0.62) and lower levels of performance fatigability, characterized by reduced rate of changes in MNF (p < 0.01; r = 0.56), CV (p < 0.05; 0.37) and FD (p < 0.001; r = 0.51) and increased endurance time (p < 0.001; r = 0.63), during the isometric contraction at 60% MVC. Conclusion A decreased reduction in the slopes of all the considered sEMG parameters during sustained isometric elbow flexions suggests that patients with FSHD experience lower levels of performance fatigability compared to healthy controls.
| Item Type: | Scientific journal article, Newspaper article or Magazine article |
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| Subjects: | Medicine and Dentistry > Clinical medicine Subjects Allied to Medicine > Anatomy, physiology & pathology > Physiology > Clinical physiology |
| Department/unit: | Dipartimento economia aziendale, sanità e sociale > Laboratorio di ricerca in riabilitazione |
| Depositing User: | Matteo Beretta Piccoli |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Aug 2021 13:14 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2021 13:17 |
| URI: | http://repository.supsi.ch/id/eprint/12489 |
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