Early rehabilitation for volumetric muscle loss injury augments endogenous regenerative aspects of muscle strength and oxidative capacity

Table 1 Multi-muscle volumetric muscle loss injury

	n	VML defect mass (mg)	Injured: uninjured gastrocnemius muscle mass	Force deficit from control (%)
3 days	4	18.6 ± 1.3	0.94 ± 0.09	–
7 days	4	18.8 ± 1.0	0.88 ± 0.08	–
14 days	4	19.1 ± 1.3	0.66 ± 0.02*	–
1 month	6	20.2 ± 0.5	0.77 ± 0.05	- 62.5 ± 3.2†
2 months	6	18.2 ± 0.9	0.88 ± 0.06	- 61.8 ± 4.7
4 months	6	19.8 ± 0.8	0.90 ± 0.02	- 51.0 ± 2.7
P-value		0.592	0.029	0.043

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