From WisPolitics.com/WisBusiness.com …
— A professor at Marquette University will study the muscles of stroke survivors through a project funded by the National Institutes of Health.
The university announced Allison Hyngstrom, chair of the university’s College of Health Sciences, has been chosen for the federal research grant alongside Dr. Matthew Durand, associate professor of anesthesiology at the Medical College of Wisconsin.
They will explore why skeletal muscles in the legs of stroke survivors experience reduced activation, weakening the limbs.
Hyngstrom explains people who have had a stroke are “unable to adequately increase and sustain cardiovascular drive” during exercise. That matters because high-intensity exercise training can greatly improve motor performance for these patients in recovery, she noted in the release.
”However, a central challenge is getting stroke survivors to achieve and sustain sufficiently high heart rates to exercise at high intensity, and sessions can be limited to short bouts of exercise versus a continuous effort,” she said.
This weakening effect could be caused by issues with “reflexive blood flow control” during exercise, a process called the metaboreflex, researchers theorize. Hyngstrom and Durand will establish the link between this physical response to exertion and exercise capacity, setting the stage for a clinical trial to test potential solutions.
Marquette University is expecting to receive $1.69 million from the award, which comes from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development within NIH.
See the release below.
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