title: Muscle forces or gravity--what predominates mechanical loading on bone? Introduction.
abstract: This article describes the background, rationale, significance, and objective of the recent American College of Sports Medicine symposium entitled "Muscle Forces or Gravity-What Predominates Mechanical Loading on Bone?" (55th Annual Meeting, Indianapolis, IN, May 28, 2008) and introduces a series of papers representing the positions taken by three of the speakers at that symposium. Our goal was to reinvigorate discussion on a topic that will inform many, provoke some, and, most importantly, stimulate ideas that will encourage progress in the field of exercise prescription for bone.
authors.affiliation: School of Physiotherapy and Exercise Science, Griffith University Gold Coast Campus, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. b.beck@griffith.edu.au
authors.forename: Belinda R
authors.initials: BR
authors.lastname: Beck
mesh_terms: D001842:Bone and Bones / Q000502:physiology*; D019245:Compressive Strength; D015444:Exercise; D006112:Gravitation; D006801:Humans; D018482:Muscle, Skeletal; D016474:Weight-Bearing