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Your muscle mass has been enhanced with the Hypertrophy Accelerator, increasing your Strength by 1.— In-game description

The Hypertrophy Accelerator Strength Implant is an implant perk in Fallout: New Vegas.

Requirements[]

The implant must be bought from Doctor Usanagi in the New Vegas medical clinic for 4,000 caps, or for 3,000 if one's Strength is below 4.

Effects[]

Gaining this perk grants a permanent +1 to Strength.

Notes[]

As with all of Usanagi's implants, if one has already purchased a number of other implants equivalent to the player character's Endurance attribute level, this implant cannot be purchased unless Endurance is raised one additional level, e.g. by taking one rank of Intense Training or gaining one of the four ending perks in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Lonesome Road.

Behind the scenes[]

"Hypertrophy" is the term assigned to a medical condition where the volume of tissue increases as a result of a growth in the size of the component cells. In this case, per the perk description, the implant enhances the adrenaline output of the body and muscle mass of the person by acting as an automatic version of steroids, forcing the body to make a large amount of muscle mass. Such a growth of musculature by enlarging the muscle cells is referred to as 'muscular hypertrophy'.

See also[]

Fallout: New Vegas implants - the comprehensive list of implants, what they do, and where to get them, including base game and those added in the Fallout: New Vegas add-on Old World Blues.

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