Detrimental effects of long sedentary bouts on the biomechanical response of cartilage to sliding.

Conclusions: These results demonstrated that the regularity of ex vivo activity regimens, specifically the duration of sedentary bouts, had a dominant effect on the biomechanical functions of articular cartilage. In more practical terms, the results suggest that brief but regular movement patterns (e.g., every hour) may be biomechanically preferred to long and infrequent movement patterns (e.g., a long walk after a sedentary day) when controlling for daily activity volume (e.g., 30 min). PMID: 31910694 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Connective Tissue Research - Category: Research Tags: Connect Tissue Res Source Type: research