The introduction of duplex Doppler ultrasound almost half a century ago signified a
revolutionary advance in the ability to assess limb blood flow in humans. It is now widely …

Simple Summary In recent years, physical exercise has been used as a therapeutic strategy
in various clinical conditions, with pleiotropic benefits. Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) …

Advanced Cardiovascular Exercise Physiology, Second Edition, systematically details the
effects of acute and chronic exercise training on each component of the cardiovascular …

Purpose Reactive hyperemia (RH) is widely used for the investigation of macrovascular
(flow-mediated dilation, or FMD) and microvascular (near-infrared spectroscopy-vascular …

Introduction Following a period of blood flow occlusion, the near-infrared spectroscopy
(NIRS)-derived reperfusion slope of the oxygen saturation signal (StO 2) is a measure of …

New Findings What is the central question of this study? What are the effects of the
menstrual (early follicular and mid‐luteal) or monophasic oral contraceptive (inactive‐and …

Purpose: Near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) indices during arterial occlusion–reperfusion
maneuver have been used to examine the muscle's oxidative metabolism and microvascular …

Near-infrared spectroscopy combined with vascular occlusion test (NIRS-VOT) is a reactive
hyperemia technique for in vivo evaluation of skeletal muscle microvascular reactivity …

Background One of the proposed mechanisms underlying the benefits of sports
compression garments may be alterations in peripheral blood flow. Objective We aimed to …

We investigated the relationship between muscle microvascular responses during reactive
hyperemia as assessed using near-infrared spectroscopy (NIRS) with changes in skeletal …