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Photo by Mark Dastin
John Lionberger of Lincoln sets up a scaffold at Sel
leck Hall on the UN-L campus. Lionberger is part of
a five-person construction crew painting the win
dow sills at Selleck. The window sills were last
painted in 1955.
BY HILL CONRADT
Imagine someday sitting on your weight
bench, hooking electrodes to your body and
letting the electricity tell your muscles to do
the work.
Ethan Saliba, a graduate assistant physi
cal therapist at the University of Nebraska
Lincoln Health Center, said he plans to start
a thesis study this fall on strength gains
using electrical stimulation with isokinetic
exercises.
The question he will answer, Saliba said,
is whether one can gain in strength using
movement induced by electrical stimula
tion. Previous experiments have shown, he
said, that strength can be gained by using
electrically stimulated muscle contractions
against a stationary object.
The experiment, Saliba said, will consist
of 30 volunteers participating in one of three
groups. The three groups will consist of
those receiving an electical stimulation,
those performing conventional exercises
and others who will maintain normal recre
ational activity.
Saliba said the participants will come in
for 30 minutes, five days a week for four
weeks. At the end of the four weeks, he said,
he hopes to find that strength can be gained
using electrical stimulation with isokinetic
exercises.
Participants receiving the elsctrical
stimulation will sit in a Cybex II exercise
machine which allows repetitions at a
predetermined velocity According to Sali
ba, the participants will exercise their quad
racep (thigh) muscles, 10 seconds at a time
with 50 seconds rest, without mentally tell
ing the muscles to do so. The electrical
stimulation will take the place of the brain.
The second group w ill do the same exer
cises on the Cybex II through voluntary
movement. The third group will continue
their normal activities.
At the end of the experiment all partici-
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been gained using the three kinds of activi
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Saliba said his interest in electrical
stimulation comes from his background in
physical therapy. For many years, he said,
electrical stimulation had been used only on
injuries. Dut lately several studies have
claimed that strength can be gained by unin
jured people using electrical stimulation
with isometric exercises. One study in
particular done by the Russians, Saliba said,
claimed that their athletes had gained 30 to
40 percent in strength using the stimulation.
Originally he had planned to start in July,
but because of the strict time schedule in
volved, he decided to wait untill this falL
Saliba said a professor must oversee his
study because he will be using human sub
jects. Saliba said he will look for physically ac
tive male and female volunteers. He may
only use one gender, depending on volunteer
response. He also hopes, he said, that volun
teers can earn one hour of credit for partici
pating in the experiment.
Those interested in participating in the
study this fall can contact Ethan Saliba at
435-1003.
New bus shuttles
Lincoln patrons
BY DAVID TROUBA
Lincoln travellers now have the option of
taking a shuttle bus to Eppley Airport in
Omaha.
Bob McBride, owner of the XPRESS
service which makes the Lincoln-Eppley
connection, said he saw a potential market
in Lincoln for this kind of service. "There
has been a 30-to-35 percent decline in air
travel out of Lincoln in the last five years or
so . . . and we had figures which showed that
8 to 11 percent of the people flying out of
Omaha had Lincoln telephone numbers,"
McBride said.
Last August, McBride tried to get the
service started, but various cab companies
in Omaha and the Lincoln Airport Authority
provided opposition to the plan. Both groups
felt McBride's service would take business
from them and each took the matter to
court.
The Lincoln Chamber of Commerce sup
ported the Airport Authority and took the
case to the Nebraska Public Service Com
mission, which decided in favor of
McBride's comp. ny.
The commisFion again decided in favor
of McBride w.ien the cab companies
brought the issue before them. The cab
companies appealed the decision and lost a
second time.
Finally, McBride began his service on
May 23.
The 24-hour service costs $12 one way or
$20 for roundtrip, children and spouses can
travel for half price. The shuttle vans leave
from two Lincoln locations; the Hilton Hotel
at 141 N. 9th St., and Coco's Restaurant at
120 N. 66th St. Shuttles leave the Hilton at
4 : 30 a.m., 7 : 05 a.m., 1 1 : 30 a.m., 1 : 50 p.m., 5 : 50
p.m. and 8:40 p.m. It arrives at Coco's 10 to
15 minutes later.
McBride said he has worked in coopera
tion with the airlines to offer shuttles in con
junction with the scheduled plane depar
tures. But, he adds, XPRESS is a private busi
ness with "no legal connections" with any
airline.
McBride said that the busiest run of the
day has been the 4:30 a.m. departure for
Omaha.
"This run coincides with a 6:35 a.m.
United Airlines flight out of Eppley, which is
an important flight for many business peo
ple," McBride said.
McBride said he felt that his company
was edding to the Lincoln economy rather
than taking away from it.
"We hired all our drivers out of Lincoln.
We purchase all our vans and gasoline here.
And we also help supply customers to both
the Hilton Hotel and Coco's restaurant,"
McBride said.
"We started out the first month with
about 200 customers. That number in
creased to 500 or 600 during the second
month," he said.
McBride said he is looking at a third van
and expects business to increase during the
summer and especially during the Christ
mas travel season.