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Filter by:The main purpose of our study is to investigate the effects of exercise therapy on upper extremity functions in patients receiving radiotherapy to the axillary region after breast cancer surgery.
The purpose of this randomized controlled trial is to study the feasibility, adherence and effects of two exercise interventions on body weight, body composition, anthropometric and fasting blood measures, physical fitness, quality of life, and lifestyle habits in patients with severe mental illness.
This study evaluates the effect of a supervised exercise program on paraspinal muscle morphology and function, as well as disability/function in patients with non-specific chronic low back pain. Half of the participants will do a targeted paraspinal muscle exercise program, while the other half will do a general exercise program.
This study is the first that investigates the impact of a multi-component intervention combining current evidence of effective interventions with an adherence app to assess the potential benefits on productivity, neck pain, and headache.
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a difficult to treat condition that impairs mobility and thinking. It is not fully treated by drugs and surgery. Two priority issues for most people with PD are "OFF-time" and Cognitive impairment. Even under best medical management, 74% of people with PD experience "OFF-time," which is when medications are just not working right. OFF-time severely impacts both quality of life and thinking. Cognitive problems are found even in newly diagnosed people with PD and are very difficult to treat. However, the investigators' research has shown that partnered dance-aerobic exercise (PDAE) reduces OFF-time on the official test for OFF-time of the Movement Disorders Society, the Movement Disorders Society Unified Parkinson Disease Rating Scale-IV, (MDS-UPDRS-IV). PDAE improves other symptoms too. Benefits of the therapy have lasted for at least one-month after PDAE sessions stopped. PDAE provides aerobic exercise during an improvisational, cognitively-engaging physical activity. Cognitive engagement is a critical component of PDAE. Previous research showed PDAE improved spatial cognition, the ability to navigate, to mentally picture shapes and paths in the mind and to know the relationships between objects, people and places. Also, the investigators showed with imaging of the brain using a magnet in a scanner that twice weekly PDAE training increases activity in brain regions used in thinking and decision making. The investigators know that exercise benefits mobility and cognitive problems. The investigators even think exercise might protect brain cells in people with PD. But no one has really been able to show with biomarkers that exercise is protective of brain cells in humans.
The aim of this study is to establish an innovative Cardiac Tele-Rehabilitation (CTR) model. It could expands assistance resources through coordination with public administrations, developing a physical exercise program (PEP) assistance model in phase II that resolves the current situation of lack of adherence in the PEP due in part to the long waiting time to start it. To sum up this study could improve adherence in Cardiac Rehabilitation Phase III. It represents an opportunity to validate an innovative model for the realization of the PEP for phase II that could be expanded to other centres.
Background: Stroke is a cerebrovascular disease which leads to ischemic damage of brain tissue and subsequent neurologic impairment. Aerobic capacity has become an effective prognosis for overall and cardiovascular mortality, but current protocols using in cardiopulmonary test (CPET) are not feasible for the hemiplegics due to balance or coordination deficit. The peak oxygen uptake should be underestimated for survival prediction. The calculation of the oxygen uptake efficiency slope (OUES) is independent of incremental exercise protocol, and patient effort, and is, therefore, suitable for patients who are not able or willing to attain maximal exercise values, just like stroke population. Study Purpose: This project will enroll stroke patients to evaluate their aerobic capacity by CPET. Compared retrospectively with previous data from heart failure patients and healthy subjects, the investigators may know the aerobic capacity of stroke patients is underestimated or not. By collecting other parameters from exercise test (cardiac output and local tissue perfusion and oxygenation), the investigators could investigate the exercise intolerance of stroke patients is contributed from neurological origin mainly or several factors synergically.
We investigated the effects of whole body vibration (WBV) and high-impact (HI) exercises in postmenopausal women with low bone mineral density. In summary, WBV exercises are effective in preventing bone loss and WBV and HI exercise programs are effective in decreasing fall risk, increasing health-related quality of life and improving depressive symptoms
The purpose of this study is to determine if the use of a pacing device, a metronome, improves functional outcome measures in aquatic therapy when compared to a control group.
This is a prospective analysis of patient registry data of intensive care patients. The aim is to investigate if frailty is a predictor of decline of functional status of critically ill patients during their hospital stay.