Patrick Calders's research while affiliated with Ghent University and other places

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BACKGROUND AND AIMS Advances in the field of kidney transplantation have led to improved postoperative survival rates, but age-standardized mortality nonetheless remains 2- to 7-fold higher in kidney transplant recipients—with cardiovascular disease representing the leading cause of death in recipients with a functioning graft. Poor physical fitnes...
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Objective: Trapezius myalgia, or more specific, myofascial dysfunction of the upper trapezius mainly affects women performing jobs requiring prolonged low level activation of the muscle. This continuous low muscle load can be accompanied by a shift to a more anaerobic energy metabolism, causing pain. To investigate whether morphological signs of a...
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Background CKD is associated with several comorbidities, cardiovascular disease being the most significant. Aerobic training has a beneficial effect on cardiovascular health in healthy and some well-defined non-healthy populations. However, the effect of aerobic training on glomerular filtration rate in patients with CKD stages 3–4 is unclear. Obj...
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Objective: Work-related trapezius myalgia is a common musculoskeletal disorder in office workers. Prolonged low-level muscle activity during office work may lead to morphological changes in the muscle tissue, causing pain and fatigue. The aim of the present study was to investigate differences in muscle morphology between office workers with and w...
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Objectives: The purposes were to (i) determine the effect of diet-only treatments and combined diet and exercise treatments on pain and physical function and (ii) explore the effect of these treatments on inflammatory biomarkers in overweight and obese adults with knee osteoarthritis. Methods: Five electronic databases were searched until March...
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Objective: (i) To determine the association between the presence of comorbidities and severity of pain and physical dysfunction in people with knee and/or hip osteoarthritis; (ii) to explore associations between specific comorbidities (cardiac disease and/or hypertension, diabetes, depression, and back pain) and symptom severity. Methods: Studie...
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Objective: Myofascial pain can be accompanied by a disturbed surface electromyographic (sEMG) activity. Nevertheless, the effect of myofascial treatment techniques, such as dry needling (DN), on the sEMG activity is poorly investigated. Several DN studies also emphasize the importance of eliciting local twitch responses (LTRs) during treatment. Ho...
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Exercise training intervention is a cornerstone in the care of type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and insulin resistance (IR), and it is pursued in order to optimize exercise interventions for these patients. In this regard, the nutritional state of patients during exercise (being in the fed or fasted state) can be of particular interest. The aim of t...
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Background: Trapezius myalgia is a common musculoskeletal complaint, characterized by pain, stiffness and tightness of the upper trapezius muscle. It is often work-related and caused by prolonged static and repetitive work tasks. It is hypothesized that this leads to various morphological and physiological alterations in muscle tissue but the path...
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Elderly are confronted with reduced physical capabilities and increased metabolic energy cost of walking. Exoskeletons that assist walking have the potential to restore walking capacity by reducing the metabolic cost of walking. However, it is unclear if current exoskeletons can reduce energy cost in elderly. Our goal was to study the effect of an...

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... Mitochondrial alterations are not specific for FM and have also been found in muscles that exhibit localized chronic pain [76,77]. Mitochondrial conditions are divided into primary and secondary mitochondrial diseases [78]. ...
... In this sense, a growing number of studies have found a positive effect of both aerobic and strength training programs [16][17][18] performed during hemodialysis on cardiorespiratory capacity, muscle volume, and strength, reduction of cardiovascular risk, and reduction of CKD progression. [19][20][21][22]. On the other hand, approaches using an intradialytic multicomponent exercise program (IMEP), that performs in different days aerobic, respiratory, and strength training to improve functional capacity in this population remain scarce. ...
... In the current study, we assessed the minimal Feret's diameter that has been applied in various human and rodent muscular studies (79)(80)(81)(82)(83)(84)(85)(86) and few equine studies (87)(88)(89). It is interesting to notice that on both occasions (fiber type specific and overall minimum Feret's diameter), different results were obtained when compared to the fiber specific and mean CSA (frame and mathematical approach). ...
... At the same time, studies have shown that obesity can cause chronic in ammation, increase the production of proin ammatory factors and activate in ammatory signaling pathways that disrupt normal bone metabolism [7]. But unlike age, obesity is a modi able risk factor for OA [8], there is evidence that weight loss can reduce pain, improve physical function and improve quality of life [9], the guidelines also recommend weight loss for overweight or obese OA patients. For overweight or obese patients, weight loss is the rst-line treatment for OA [10]. ...
... Models in the adjusted analyses were controlled for age (continuous), sex (male/female), BMI (continuous), education level (ordered categorical), symptom duration (continuous), additional joint (knee or hip) symptoms (yes/no), and comorbid back pain intensity (continuous). Potential confounders (described in Supplementary File) were selected based on previous literature investigating the association of these variables with GLA:D® outcomes [30,31], OA outcomes in general [32][33][34], and LSS [35,36]. ...
... rheumatoid arthritis) and other hip and back conditions that co-exist or share overlapping symptoms (e.g. glutaeal tendinopathy) (Aresti et al., 2016;Calders & Van Ginckel, 2018;Grimaldi et al., 2015;Metcalfe et al., 2019;Reiman et al., 2020;Reiman et al., 2014;Woodley et al., 2008). ...
... UT pain is usually accompanied by myofascial trigger points (MTrPs) [6]. Multiple studies have investigated the features of MTrPs of the UT, including lower muscle oxygenation and higher lactate concentrations [7], lower performance in tests of isokinetic shoulder lifting strength [8], hyperactivation and increased muscle tension [9][10][11], lower abduction torque in the middle deltoid (MD) and lower activation in the UT [12]. ...
... Trapezius myalgia is characterized by acute or persistent neck and shoulder pain due to the presence of pain, stiffness, and tightness in the upper trapezius muscle [77]. Trapezius myalgia is most common among those who engage in repetitive manual work, often involving strained posture [77]. ...
... The elasticity of the tendon at the ankle joint is high, and the function of the tendon is similar to that of a spring, which can realize energy storage [27]. As shown in Fig. 2(a), the ankle joint does negative work in the initial stance and mid stance and positive work in the terminal stance. ...
... Las medidas de resultados fueron: actividad muscular electromiográfica del músculo trapecio superior en mo, se ha mencionado que alteraciones de la actividad eléctrica del trapecio superior podrían generar repercusiones en músculos escapulares y glenohumerales (6). Otros estudios mencionan que la persistencia de los PGM en los músculos de cuello y hombro genera dolor de cabeza, mareos y vértigos, asociado al proceso doloroso (7), además de limitar el patrón de movimiento cervical y glenohumeral generando una discapacidad funcional en la extremidad superior (8). ...