Recent Perspectives Regarding Muscle and Exercise Training

Dear Colleagues,

The purpose of this Special Issue is to specify the principles of physiology, functional anatomy and biomechanics to explore and understand muscle problems. This could be augmented human research focusing on the understanding of muscle and exercise training in the context of health, sport and at work. Our objective is to summarize the most important parameters of muscle physiology influencing functional balance or muscle performance related to the health sciences for all age groups, throughout their lives. We encourage papers aiming to promote the latest research in the fields of health, quality of life improvement, and sport rehabilitation, and to summarize the better recommendations. We are also interested in manuscripts working towards the prevention of functional decline and frailty following a life-course perspective through the utilization of the latest research applied to health in general as well as applicative works targeted to all stages of life aimed at disease prevention, improved performance and disease management. Of further interest is the modelling, simulation, quantification and computation of the musculoskeletal system, permitting quantification and improving the discriminate parameters characterizing movement in different cases (e.g., sport, work and daily life). The overall aim of this Special Issue is to effectively combine and coordinate research and results in order to understand recent perspectives regarding muscle and exercise training.

Dr. Ana Cristina Rodrigues Lacerda
Guest Editor

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