Regular physical exercise is a powerful tool to promote immediate health benefits, such as quality of sleep, reduced anxiety, lowered blood pressure, and long-term, such as brain and heart health, cancer prevention, healthy weight, bone strength, balance, and coordination. However, the overall physical exercise benefit of small muscle mass training is still under debate. Some exercises include; shoulder blade squeezes, side-lying hip abductor and side-lying external rotation. The general benefits of exercising these muscles in isolation are improved flexibility, an increase in muscle strength and trophysm along with a more balanced muscular strength on both sides of the body. Previous studies have shown that isolated small muscle training can increase exercise intolerance and improve the quality of life in people with cardiovascular diseases but further research is needed to understand the overall physical benefit of this training.
On this premise, the goal of this research topic is to highlight the effects of small muscle mass exercise training (active or passive) as a novel non-pharmacological approach for maintaining, improving or studying immediate and long-term health, especially in individuals with limited mobility or where the traditional approaches are not viable.
In this Research Topic, we seek to reflect on the current debate regarding the efficiency of active and passive small muscle mass exercise training as a high quality, effective, ethically sound, and safe tool to promote, maintain and study health similarly to a whole-body exercise training protocol. Manuscripts should focus on generating knowledge and future practice in the clinical prescription of physical exercise. Manuscripts will be selected based on their impact on protocol feasibility and practicality, cost, relevance to the healthcare system, and novelty of the proposed exercise training protocols. We invite submissions of manuscripts from both healthy and unhealthy populations describing original research (e.g., observational studies or clinical trials).
Regular physical exercise is a powerful tool to promote immediate health benefits, such as quality of sleep, reduced anxiety, lowered blood pressure, and long-term, such as brain and heart health, cancer prevention, healthy weight, bone strength, balance, and coordination. However, the overall physical exercise benefit of small muscle mass training is still under debate. Some exercises include; shoulder blade squeezes, side-lying hip abductor and side-lying external rotation. The general benefits of exercising these muscles in isolation are improved flexibility, an increase in muscle strength and trophysm along with a more balanced muscular strength on both sides of the body. Previous studies have shown that isolated small muscle training can increase exercise intolerance and improve the quality of life in people with cardiovascular diseases but further research is needed to understand the overall physical benefit of this training.
On this premise, the goal of this research topic is to highlight the effects of small muscle mass exercise training (active or passive) as a novel non-pharmacological approach for maintaining, improving or studying immediate and long-term health, especially in individuals with limited mobility or where the traditional approaches are not viable.
In this Research Topic, we seek to reflect on the current debate regarding the efficiency of active and passive small muscle mass exercise training as a high quality, effective, ethically sound, and safe tool to promote, maintain and study health similarly to a whole-body exercise training protocol. Manuscripts should focus on generating knowledge and future practice in the clinical prescription of physical exercise. Manuscripts will be selected based on their impact on protocol feasibility and practicality, cost, relevance to the healthcare system, and novelty of the proposed exercise training protocols. We invite submissions of manuscripts from both healthy and unhealthy populations describing original research (e.g., observational studies or clinical trials).
