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Lead
DLR German Aerospace Center
The 56day unloading intervention with HEPHAISTOS had the following key objectives:
1. Primary objective: Assessment and evaluation of bone adaptation.
2. Secondary objective: Assessment and evaluation of functional and structural muscular adaptations.
3. Third objective: Assessment and evaluation of functional and structural vascular adaptations.
4. Fourth objective: Assessment and evaluation if the present findings deviate from findings observed in established unloading models.
Age
20–40
Sex
MALE
Healthy volunteers
Accepted
You may be eligible if
male
age: 20-40 years
BMI: 20-30
passing the psychological and medical check up.
signed consent to participate in the study
faultless certificate of good conduct
You may not be if
smoking
professional athletes
diabetes
muscle or joint disease
trabecular bone density in the distal tibia epiphysis \< 160mg/cm3
increase risk of thrombosis
bone fractures 12 months prior to the study
metal implants, any material of osteosynthesis
participation in another clinical intervention study 2 months prior to the study
