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inspiratory muscle fatigue

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inspiratory muscle fatigue,
weakness or exhaustion of the muscles that produce inspiration, resulting in a condition of threatened acute respiratory failure.


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A comparison of inspiratory muscle fatigue following maximal exercise in moderately trained male and females.
Key Words: respiratory muscles, skeletal muscle, exertion, muscle injury INTRODUCTION Inspiratory muscle fatigue (1) and weakness (2) have been identified as factors contributing to force loss in different patient populations.
Using the fatigue protocol described by Lewis and Fulco (1998), we have recently shown untrained women have a slower rate of inspiratory muscle fatigue than untrained men during intermittent isometric exercise (Gonzales and Scheuermann, 2006), consistent with findings in the adductor pollicis muscle (Fulco et al.
 
 
 
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