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Filter by:The primary aim of our study is to evaluate the validity and reliability of the Fullerton Advanced Balance (FAB-T) scale in individuals with osteoarthritis. The secondary aim of this study is to evaluate the responsiveness of the FAB-T scale to change in patients with osteoarthritis.
Estimated costs, from thirty days prior to lung transplant up through six months post surgery, exceed 1 million dollars per patient and routine medical costs average approximately fifty thousand dollars per year thereafter. Prior to transplant, lung transplant recipients self restrict activity due to severe respiratory limitations, resulting in reduced muscle mass and qualitative changes in large skeletal muscles. After transplant, despite improved lung function, studies consistently report that lung recipients fail to reach predicted physical function and physical activity. Nearly seventy percent are at risk of developing hypertension within the first five years due to side effects of immunosuppression and an inactive lifestyle worsens this risk. Consequently, full benefits of transplant may not be achieved. Few studies have tested ways to engage lung recipients in self management of exercise and adopt an active lifestyle. Lung Transplant Go LTGO is a behavioral exercise intervention that provides individualized exercise training integrated with behavioral coaching delivered in the recipient's home. Exercise training will focus on assisting lung recipients to learn and practice exercises to reverse muscle conditioning. Behavioral coaching will assist them to develop the skills to self manage physical activity in daily life and maintain this as a sustained habit using strategies that include incremental goal setting, self-monitoring, feedback and problem solving.
Intense exercise is a major challenge to the management of type 1 diabetes. The management is even more difficult, during a camp, probably due to increased hypoglycemia maybe from increase of intensity of physical activity. The investigators want to evaluate steps, energy expenditure, sleep time and glycemic control and insulin dosage, through use of a wrist accelerometer, in pediatric type 1 patients attending a camp. Finding a correlation between these parameters could be useful not only for educational purposes but also in the development of algorithms for artificial pancreas.
The purpose of our study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the home exercise program in patients who develop Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS).
Exercise is an important part of therapy guidelines in the rehabilitation of rare diseases (RDs) as Haemophilia and Myositis. The aim of this study is not to evaluate a new therapy intervention, but to evaluate the delivery of this intervention. In clinical practice, patients are usually instructed to perform an exercise program at home. Normally, a physiotherapist (PT) provides an instruction (paper-) sheet. In this study, the investigators evaluate the feasibility of an interactive tablet-based way of delivery. The exercise program is - as usual in physiotherapy - individually tailored by the PT.
This study will be looking at the effects that instability resistance training and aerobic training, individually, have on the improvement of various motor and cognitive impairments present in individuals with Parkinson' disease. There will be 25-30 participants in this study (all of whom have Parkinson's disease). Once passing the eligibility criteria, participants will complete as series of baseline/pre-tests and then be randomly assigned to either the aerobic training group or the instability training group, where they will participate in every training session that occurs in the next 8 consecutive weeks. There will be 3 training sessions a week occurring on non-consecutive days (ex. Monday, Wednesday, Friday) for both training groups (3 aerobic training sessions, 3 instability resistance training sessions). Once the 8 week training intervention has been completed, a series of post-tests will occur exactly once week after (same tests used as in the pre-tests)
Acromegaly is chronic, systemic and highly disabling disease. People with Acromegaly show a significant reduction in peripheral muscle strength associated with a loss resistance and lethargy. They tend the fatigue more easily when compared to individuals without the disease, which involves exercise intolerance and disability resulting in a quality of life impaired. Acromegaly have important functional limitations that adversely affect the performance in the activities of day-to-day and contribute to the worsening of the disease. Based on previous studies, the investigators believe that acromegaly participants with would have benefit from a treatment protocol facing physical performance and improved quality of life. Main Objective: To evaluate the effect of home rehabilitation on quality of life of participants with acromegaly. Methods: In this study of longitudinal intervention, they will undergo a rehabilitation program lasting three months, three times a week lasting 60 minutes each session. The protocol will be the assessment of Acromegaly Quality of Life Questionnaire (AcroQol) questionnaire, functional assessment by the walk test of six minutes (6MWT), peripheral muscle strength and assessment of joint integrity, fatigue will be measured by the Functional Assessment of Chronic Illness Therapy-Fatigue (FACIT-F) questionnaire that evaluates the fatigue in the chronic participants. The assessment will be in 3 different moment (month 0, month 2 month 3). The treatment protocol will consist of warm-up and cool-down, strengthening exercise and muscular endurance, aerobic training, and balance training and proprioception. Prospects: The participants with acromegaly will benefited significantly after undergoing a physical therapy rehabilitation protocol the following parameters: Resistance and muscle strength, pain conditions and disorders skeletal muscle, improvement in activities of daily living and consequent better quality of life.
The degree to which endurance exercise performance is diminished in acute hypoxia is variable and appears to be the result of several different physiological processes, however this research focuses on hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction (HPV). Sildenafil, a pulmonary vasodilator, has been used with mixed results to improve athletic performance in hypoxia. Because sildenafil has been shown to reduce HPV in some individuals, we believe that its effectiveness is closely related to the magnitude of the HPV response and the degree that individual exercise performance declines in hypoxia. This research will investigate the relationship between sildenafil, HPV, and exercise performance.
Immediately following a spinal cord injury (SCI), patients are admitted to inpatient rehabilitation where they undergo physical reconditioning in preparation for a return to home setting. The current standard of practice for aerobic training is performing arm-ergometry for 25 mins at a frequency of three times per week. Given the move towards shortened length of stay during inpatient rehabilitation, performing MICT can consume a considerable amount of therapy time. Sprint interval training (SIT) has been shown to elicit similar improvements in physical capacity, despite a reduced time commitment to MICT. However, there are no controlled trials comparing the effects of SIT to MICT in individuals with SCI undergoing inpatient rehabilitation. The primary aim of this study was to investigate the efficacy of a five-week, thrice weekly 10 min SIT program and compare outcome measures to a traditional 25 minute MICT program on the arm-ergometer in individuals with SCI undergoing inpatient clinical rehabilitation. It was hypothesized that five weeks of SIT and MICT would induce similar changes in maximal and sub-maximal exercise performance, self-efficacy for exercise, and exercise enjoyment, despite large differences in training volume and time commitment. It was also hypothesized that SIT would be well tolerated and elicit higher levels of cardiovascular strain than MICT.
Exercising postpartum is important for the health of mother and child. However, there are physical changes postpartum which can prevent women from exercising postpartum. About 30% of women postpartum have problems with stress urinary incontinence. Almost as many have a remaining separation of the two parts of the muscle rectus abdominis. Over the last decenium there has been an increased interest but also disparate information about these conditions. This has led to an increased uncertainty among women who wants to resume exercising postpartum. More and more women seek help of physiotherapists to verify an appropriate function in their muscles after pregnancy. However, reliable and valid examination methods are scarce and it is unclear how to interpret the examination results to give individualized exercise advice. The aim of this study is to test the reliability of examination methods for the pelvic floor function and separation of the rectus abdominis and the criterion validity of these examination methods regarding exercising without leaking urine and lumbopelvic pain. Another aim is to identify if exercising postpartum has effects on the function of the muscles and (less) leaking of urine and lumbopelvic pain/disability. Recruitment of 300 women approximately 8 weeks postpartum in the Region Västra Götaland. For testing interrater reliability on manual examination of the pelvic floor and the separation of the rectus abdominis by caliper two physiotherapists will examine the participants´ pelvic floor and abdominal muscles. The examinations will be tested for criterion validity using a questionnaire for pelvic floor function, lumbopelvic pain/disability and physical activity level. In an observational component of this study the questionnaire will also be used to evaluate the effects of exercising postpartum on the recovery of pelvic floor and abdominal muscles at 6, 9 and 12 months postpartum. This study will provide knowledge about the reliability of examination methods for pelvic floor function and separation of the rectus abdominis, their correlation to urinary leakage and pain/disability (criterion validity) and the effects of exercising on muscle function postpartum.