Task Dependence of Muscle Fatigue in Older Adults

老年人肌肉疲劳的任务依赖性

• 批准号: 6828507
• 负责人: SANDRA K HUNTER
• 金额: $ 6.03万
• 依托单位: MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 财政年份: 2004
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2004-08-15 至 2006-06-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/6828507
• 关键词: biomechanics; blood pressure; clinical research; computer program /software; elbow; electromyography; electronic recording system; environmental adaptation; fatigue; gender difference; heart rate; human old age (65+); human subject; muscle contraction; muscle strength; neuromuscular function; shear stress; statistics /biometry; young adult human (21-34)

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): NIA Pilot Research Program, Topic 14: Sensory and Motor Processing The endurance capacity of a muscle will vary with the task performed. However, the influence of age-related changes within the neuromuscular system on the task-dependent nature of muscle fatigue is unexplored in older adults. This raises the following question: Does age alter the ability of the neuromuscular system to adapt to different fatiguing tasks? In young adults, the endurance time when performing a submaximal isometric contraction was longer when maintaining a force and pushing against a force transducer (force task) compared with maintaining a constant elbow angle while supporting an equivalent inertial load at the wrist (position task) (Hunter et al. 2002). The briefer endurance time for the position task was attributable to neural mechanisms including a greater rate of descending drive. Given that age-related changes in the neuromuscular system will predispose the older adult to impairment within the nervous system during a fatiguing task, this RO3 application examines the following hypothesis: the difference in endurance time of a submaximal fatiguing contraction for a position task compared with a force task, will be greater in older adults compared with young adults due to age-related impairment in neural mechanisms. There are three specific aims to test this hypothesis. The first aim will compare the endurance time and muscle activation patterns of the elbow flexor muscles in young and older adults for a position task and force task. Aims 2 and 3 will evaluate potential mechanisms for the age-related differences in muscle fatigue of the two tasks, by measuring indices of descending drive and peripheral afferent feedback from the muscle during the fatiguing contractions. These measures include muscle sympathetic nerve activity, heart rate, fluctuations in motor Output, sense of effort and the pressor response. This application proposes a novel approach to examine muscle fatigue in older adults. The findings will provide preliminary information on the type of load and support preferred by older adults for long-duration submaximal tasks during daily tasks. This will constitute new information on the task-dependent nature of muscle fatigue in older adults. These preliminary findings will form the foundation for an RO 1 application that will further explore the mechanisms and task dependency of muscle fatigue in older adults.

描述（由申请人提供）：NIA试点研究计划，主题14：感觉和运动处理肌肉的耐力能力会随着任务的执行而变化。然而，在老年人中，神经肌肉系统中与年龄相关的变化对肌肉疲劳的任务依赖性的影响尚未得到探索。这就提出了以下问题：年龄是否会改变神经肌肉系统适应不同疲劳任务的能力？在年轻人中，当保持一个力并推动力传感器（力任务）时，进行次最大等距收缩时的耐力时间比保持恒定的肘关节角度同时支持腕部等效惯性负荷（位置任务）时的耐力时间更长（Hunter et al. 2002）。位置任务较短的耐力时间可归因于神经机制，包括更高的下降驱动率。考虑到与年龄相关的神经肌肉系统变化会使老年人在疲劳任务中神经系统受损，本RO3应用检验了以下假设：由于与年龄相关的神经机制损伤，与年轻人相比，老年人在位置任务中与力量任务相比，亚最大疲劳收缩的耐力时间差异更大。有三个具体的目的来验证这一假设。第一个目的是比较年轻人和老年人肘关节屈肌在位置任务和力量任务中的耐力时间和肌肉激活模式。目的2和3将通过测量疲劳收缩过程中肌肉的下行驱动和外周传入反馈指数来评估两种任务中肌肉疲劳的年龄相关差异的潜在机制。这些测量包括肌肉交感神经活动、心率、运动输出的波动、努力感和压力反应。该应用程序提出了一种新的方法来检查老年人的肌肉疲劳。该研究结果将为老年人在日常任务中进行长时间次最大任务时所偏好的负荷和支持类型提供初步信息。这将构成老年人肌肉疲劳的任务依赖性质的新信息。这些初步发现将为进一步探索老年人肌肉疲劳的机制和任务依赖性的RO - 1应用奠定基础。