Research

Learn the scientific university research behind the eccentron™:

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• Effects of Early Progressive Eccentric Exercise on Muscle Structure After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction
  The Journal of Bone & Joint Surgery, March 2007
• Early Application of Negative Work via Eccentric Ergometry Following ACL Reconstruction
  A case study that reveals amplified hypertrophic response and strength return
• Eccentric Muscle Contractions:
  Their contribution to injury, prevention, rehabilitation, and sport
• The Positive Effects of Negative Work:
  Increased muscle strength and decreased fall risk in a frail elderly population
• Chronic eccentric exercise:
  Improvements in muscle strength can occur with little demand for oxygen
• Eccentric ergometry:
  Increases in locomotor muscle size and strength at low training intensities
• When Active Muscles Lengthen:
  Properties and consequences of eccentric contractions
• Is the spring quality of muscle plastic?

Recent grants by eccentron™ inventors:

ONGOING

• A RENEW intervention for elderly cancer survivors.
  Aims: To pilot the effectiveness of eccentric exercise in improving muscle structure, their overall fatigue and perception of weakness as well as mobility in and elderly population that has survived cancer.
  Funding Agency: NIH- National Cancer Institute
• High-Force, Low-Cost Resistance Exercise for the Elderly Total Knee Joint Recipient.
  Aims: To pilot the effectiveness of eccentric exercise in improving muscle structure/function and mobility in an elderly population that has undergone a knee replacement and suffers from long-standing muscle impairments.
  Funding Agency: University of Utah Research Foundation
• High Force, Low-Cost Resistance Training in Individuals with Multiple Sclerosis.
  Aims: To pilot the effectiveness of eccentric exercise in improving muscle structure/function and mobility in an population that has multiple sclerosis and impaired mobility.
  Funding Agency: National Multiple Sclerosis Society
• Eccentric resistance following ACL reconstruction: Can improvements in muscle size, strength and function be amplified in the early postoperative period?
  Aims: To determine if eccentric exercise can amplify the improvements in muscle size and function, as compared to traditional post-operative rehabilitation following ACL reconstruction.
  Funding Agency: National Am Physical Therapy Assoc, Orthopedic Section Clinical Research Grant
• Effects of strength training on balance in elderly with Parkinson’s disease using an in-shoe mobile gait device.
  Aims: To pilot the effectiveness an in-shoe mobile gait device on detecting impaired locomotion and how strength training influences mobility/locomotion.
  Funding Agency: American Parkinson’s Disease Association

COMPLETED

• High Force Eccentric Exercise for Sarcopenia.
  Aims: To explore a high-force, low-cost eccentric intervention in frail elderly individuals with sarcopenia and a high risk for falling.
  Funding Agency: NIH, National Institute of Aging
• Eccentric Exercise Effects on Sarcopenia, Function, and Quality of Life in Persons with Parkinson Disease.
  Aims: To pilot the effectiveness of eccentric exercise in improving muscle structure, function, and quality of life in neurologically impaired population (Parkinson’s disease) with skeletal muscle atrophy.
  Funding Agency: Foundation for Physical Therapy
• The Effects of Chronic Eccentric Training on Sarcopenia and Function in Persons with Parkinson Disease.
  Aims: To pilot the effectiveness of eccentric exercise in improving muscle structure, function, and quality of life in neurologically impaired population (Parkinson’s disease) with skeletal muscle atrophy.
  Funding Agency: University of Utah Research Foundation

Independent Case Studies using the eccentron™:

• Case Study #1
  Performed by Physiotherapy Associates in Las Vegas, NV
• Case Study #2
  Performed by Physiotherapy Associates in San Francisco, CA