Prescribing Blood Flow Restricted Exercise: Limb Composition Influences the Pressure Required to Create Arterial Occlusion
The reported relationships between lower limb muscle mass, lower limb circumference, and AOP suggest that as muscle mass increases, lower limb circumference also increases, yet AOP decreases. This implies that limb circumference should not be used as the primary measure for calculating AOP within the sampled population. We recommend individually measuring AOP when implementing blood flow restriction in all exercise modalities.
Authors
- Alasdair R. Dempsey (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8219-6120)
- Andrew M. Jonson (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0814-2375)
- Timothy J. Fairchild (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3975-2213)
- Thomas P. Walden (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5702-2265)
- Olivier Girard (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4797-182X)
Institutions
- University Health Network (CA)
- Murdoch University (AU)
- The University of Western Australia (AU)
- Swinburne University of Technology (AU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Journal of Sport Rehabilitation
- Published
- 2024-08-23
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1123/jsr.2023-0423
- Citations
- 2
- Primary Topic
- Cardiovascular and exercise physiology
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.43