Editing Isometric exercise (section)

==Medical uses==
Isometric exercises can also be used at the bedside to differentiate various [[heart murmur]]s; the murmur of [[mitral regurgitation]] gets louder<ref>{{cite web | url = http://pediatrics.uchicago.edu/chiefs/ClinicCurriculum/documents/WCEvaluationofMurmursintheClinicSetting.pdf | title = Evaluation of Cardiac Murmurs in the Clinic Setting | publisher = University of Chicago | access-date = 2008-01-10 | last = Ching | first = W | url-status = dead | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20081217153301/http://pediatrics.uchicago.edu/chiefs/ClinicCurriculum/documents/WCEvaluationofMurmursintheClinicSetting.pdf | archive-date = 2008-12-17 }}</ref> as compared to the quieter murmur of [[aortic stenosis]].<ref>{{cite journal |vauthors=Cassidy J, Aronow WS, Prakash R |title=The effect of isometric exercise on the systolic murmur of patients with idiopathic hypertrophic subaortic stenosis |journal=Chest |volume=67 |issue=4 |pages=395–397 |year=1975 |pmid=1168115 |doi=10.1378/chest.67.4.395}}</ref> They can also be used to prevent disuse syndrome in a limb that has been immobilized by a cast following a fracture.

Isometric exercises are recommended in case of injury. The exercises help maintain strength and promote recovery.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Allen |first1=Trevor J. |last2=Jones |first2=Tyson |last3=Tsay |first3=Anthony |last4=Morgan |first4=David L. |last5=Proske |first5=Uwe |title=Muscle damage produced by isometric contractions in human elbow flexors |journal=Journal of Applied Physiology |date=2018 |volume=124 |issue=2 |pages=388–399 |doi=10.1152/japplphysiol.00535.2017|pmid=29074710 |s2cid=3465982 |doi-access=free }}</ref>