The mechanical forces produced by skeletal muscle contraction and relaxation are sufficient to generate significant blood flow independently of the heart.
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Muscle pump may augment flow independently in animals; hypothesis-generating and should not change clinical practice without human data.
Sheriff et al. (1998) studied this question.
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