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Rehabilitation
Programmes Effects Uses
Disuse
atrophy
Reactivation of the trophic
action of muscle fibres da-
maged during atrophy
Treatment to combat any
reduction of muscle vo-
lume:
- as a result of trauma ne-
cessitating immobilisation
- accompanying degenera-
tive lesions to joints
Muscle
growth
Increased diameter and ca-
pacity of muscle fibres da-
maged during
under-activity or inactivity
imposed by some kind of
pathological problem
Restoration of muscle vo-
lume
After a period of using the
Disuse atrophy treatment, as
soon as the muscle shows
signs of a slight recovery of
volume or tone
Until the virtually complete
restoration of muscle vo-
lume
Reinforcement
Increase the strength of a
muscle previously atro-
phied
Increase the strength of a
muscle affected by a pa-
thological process
At the end of rehabilitation,
when the muscle has regai-
ned normal muscle volume
From the onset of rehabili-
tation for non-atrophied
muscles
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