Effect of vitamin D supplementation and isokinetic training on muscle strength, explosive strength, lean body mass and gait in severely burned children: A randomized controlled trial.

What Was Tested

This randomized controlled trial looks at Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

To determine the effects of vitamin D (VD) supplementation and isokinetic training on muscle strength, explosive strength (counter movement jump) (ES), lean body mass (LBM) and gait parameters in severe pediatric burn.

Who Took Part

By PubMed's age tags, the people studied were children and teenagers, both men and women.

Unburned children (n=20) served as matched controls.

All burned children received 12 weeks of routine physical therapy program (RPTP).

How the Study Was Run

The researchers set it up as a randomized study.

Because people in this Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc study were split into groups at random, differences between the groups are less likely to reflect who happened to join each one.

The primary measures, assessed at baseline and 12 weeks, included quadriceps strength by isokinetic dynamometer, ES, LBM by dual-energy X-ray absorptiometry (DEXA) and gait parameters by GAITRite system.

What Was Measured

Topics PubMed links to this paper include Analysis of Variance, Burns, Case-Control Studies, Cholecalciferol, Dietary Supplements, Exercise Therapy and Gait.

The authors tagged it with the keywords Isokinetic, Pediatric burn, Rehabilitation and Vitamin D.

What This Means in Plain Language

The paper is a randomized study of Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc.

Results are reported in around 3 sentences of the abstract; we leave them to the paper itself rather than summarise them.

The publication is from 2017 (Burns : journal of the International Society for Burn Injuries), a journal based in Netherlands.

More context: the Vitamin D, K2, Magnesium and Zinc compound page, all human trials.