Review Article

Loading and Skeletal Development and Maintenance

Figure 3

BMC increases more in children submitted for 7 months to a program of impact exercise (jumps) than in their control peers who had nonimpact activities. Age at onset was 8 years. Seven years after the end of the program, a small benefit of the impact activities was still detectable. Reproduced from Gunter et al. [142], with kind permission of Wiley.
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