Dr. Martin K Childers DO, PHD
Physiatrist (Physical Medicine) | Physical Medicine & Rehabilitation
505 Parnassus Ave # M-1202 San Francisco CA, 94143About
I am passionate about finding answers for patients with devastating muscle diseases, particularly those with congenital myopathies and Duchenne muscular dystrophy. As a rehabilitation clinical specialist ...
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Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Inhibitory casting decreases a vibratory inhibition index of the H-reflex in the spastic upper limb.
- Contraction force generated by tarsal joint flexion and extension in dogs with golden retriever muscular dystrophy.
- Myofiber injury and regeneration in a canine homologue of Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
- Eccentric contraction injury in dystrophic canine muscle.
- The importance of electromyographic guidance and electrical stimulation for injection of botulinum toxin.
- Regulatory light chain phosphorylation increases eccentric contraction-induced injury in skinned fast-twitch fibers.
- Targeting the neuromuscular junction in skeletal muscles.
- Effects of prednisone in canine muscular dystrophy.
- Ambulation training with and without partial weightbearing after traumatic brain injury: results of a randomized, controlled trial.
- Stretch-induced force deficits in murine extensor digitorum longus muscles after cardiotoxin injection.
- Testosterone levels among men with spinal cord injury admitted to inpatient rehabilitation.
- Myostatin expression in muscular dystrophies and mitochondrial encephalomyopathies.
- Effects of intra-articular botulinum toxin type A in an equine model of acute synovitis: a pilot study.
- TCAP knockdown by RNA interference inhibits myoblast differentiation in cultured skeletal muscle cells.
- Mesenchymal stem cells: emerging therapy for Duchenne muscular dystrophy.
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