A leg to stand on - updates - Brief Article

Better Nutrition, May, 2002

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Can creatine speed muscle recovery during physical therapy? Researchers at the Catholic University Leuven in Belgium, the Copenhagen Muscle Research Center in Denmark and the University of Nottingham in England seem to think so. A double-blind, placebo-controlled study, which was published in the October 2001 issue of the Journal of Physiology, charted the progress of 20 male and female students whose right legs were immobilized in casts for a period of two weeks. Findings showed that subjects who received daily creatine dosages during and after leg immobilization displayed more muscle power and greater muscle size after three to 10 weeks of physical rehabilitation than did subjects who took a placebo.

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