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Filter by:The primary goal of this study is to examine the effect of one-hour walking exercise on sleep quality in adults. The second goal of this study is to explore a feasible exercise method to promote sleep quality to all age groups, in order to improve sleep quality in overall population. The study attempts to unfold how the daily exercise, such as walking, benefits sleep quality. This study hypothesis that one-hour walking improves sleep quality in general population.
This study aims to examine the effect of external, internal and no attention focus walking training during gait rehabilitation on real-time conscious motor processing (reinvestment), balance, walking ability and fear of falling by older adults at risk of falling in Hong Kong. One-hundred and eight older adults will be recruited from elderly community centers in Hong Kong. Participants will be randomly assigned into 3 groups (i.e., No Attention Focus Walking Group (NAFWG; active control group, n=36), an External Attention Focus Walking Group (EAFWG, n = 36) or an Internal Attention Focus Walking Group (IAFWG, n = 36)). Participants in different groups will have training sessions (about 45 minutes each) three times per week for 4 weeks in a group of 6 participants. A total of 12 sessions will be completed by each participant. All training sessions will be conducted by experienced registered physiotherapists in Hong Kong and a research assistant with experience in exercise training for older adults. In each training session, all groups will have warm-up (5 minutes), balance training (5 minutes), body transport training (5 minutes), body transport with hand manipulation training (5 minutes), walking training with various levels of difficulties in a 40-meter walkway with different instructions in different walking groups (20 minutes) and cool down (5 minutes). For the walking training (20 minutes), all participants will be invited to conduct walking training on a walking field with an area of 25 meter square and a total walking distance of about 40 meters for each walking trial from cone 1 to 9. Two screens that connected with a laptop computer will be positioned 1 meter beside the walking field. Both screens will be projected different digits from 0 to 9 randomly in the speed of 2 seconds per digit. Participants in the NAFWG, EAFWG, and IAFWG will receive different instructions during walking training. Each participant will complete assessment sessions (total 3 assessment sessions) before training at baseline (T0), just after completion of all training sessions (T1) and 6 months after completion of all training sessions (T2). In the baseline assessment (T0), a structural questionnaire will be used to ask for demographics, medical history, detailed history of fall incident, social history and social economic status of all participants. A battery of assessments will be conducted to assess physical and cognitive abilities of the participants in all assessment sessions (T0, T1, & T2). Walking ability will be assessed by the 10 meters comfortable and fast walking speed (Bohannon, 1997). Functional balance and gait assessment will be done by the Tinetti Balance Assessment Tool (Tinetti, 1986), the Berg Balance Scale (BBS) (Berg et al., 1989) and the Timed 'Up & Go' Tests (TU&G) (Podsiadlo & Richardson, 1991). Cognitive function will be evaluated by the Chinese version Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE-C) (Folstein et al., 1975; Chiu et al., 1994). The Chinese version of the Fall Efficacy Scale International (FES-I (Ch)) (Kwan, Tsang, Close & Lord, 2013) will be completed to assess the fear of falling. The Chinese version Movement Specific Reinvestment Scale (MSRS-C) (Masters et al., 2005; Wong et al., 2015a; Wong et al., 2015b) will be administered to examine the conscious motor processing propensity (i.e., movement specific reinvestment). The alpha2 EEG coherence between T3 (verbal-analytical region of the brain) and the Fz (motor planning region of the brain) (i.e., T3-Fz EEG coherence) of all participants when walking at the 6-meter level-ground walkway (three walking trials) will be determined to identify the real-time conscious motor processing propensity (Zhu et al., 2011; Ellmers et al., 2016; Chu & Wong, 2019). All participants will be equipped with EEG electrodes before the start of the three walking trials. EEG activity will be received using a wireless EEG device (Brainquiry PET 4.0, Brainquiry, The Netherlands) and will be recorded using the real-time biophysical data acquisition software (BioExplorer 1.5, CyberEvolution, US). Previous research has demonstrated that alpha2 (10-12Hz) T3-Fz EEG coherence is sensitive at detecting within-subject changes in real-time conscious motor processing propensity during a postural sway task (Ellmers et al., 2016). T4-Fz EEG coherence will be utilized to identify whether the changes in the alpha2 T3-Fz EEG coherence will be due to global activation of the brain. The EEG electrodes are non-invasive and will not be used in any diagnostic purpose. All participants will be asked to record their number of falls prospectively at the time between T1 (completion of all training sessions) and T2 (6 months after completion of all training sessions) using a structural calendar. The number of falls within the 6-month follow-up period will then be collected.
A total of 240 hypertensive subjects aged 40-69 years (including 126 patients complicated with diabetes) will be included in a few communities in Beijing, and will be divided into 3 groups according to the individual wishes of the subjects: walking group(n=80, including 42 patients complicated with diabetes), Chinese square dancing group(n=80, including 42 patients complicated with diabetes) and control group(n=80, including 42 patients complicated with diabetes). All exercise sessions will be supervised and subject's exercise implementation process will be managed with intelligent equipment. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of different training programs in the real world. The demographics data, physical activity questionnaires, blood pressure, blood glucose, blood lipids, height, weight and physical fitness （cardiorespiratory fitness,muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, body composition)will be measured before and after 3-month exercise training .The adverse reactions in the implementation of the interventions will be recorded. The primary outcomes are blood pressure and blood glucose.
Investigators investigate the patterns of cortical activation using the NIRST in patients with peripheral neurological injury caused by lower extremity burns.
The purpose of this study is to measure and link cadence (number of steps taken in a minute) to intensity of physical activity (e.g., low-intensity, moderate intensity, vigorous-intensity) in adults (40- 65 years-old) with type 2 diabetes.
The study is a randomized 3-month community-based exercise intervention with a control group and 2 different exercise groups: walking group and Chinese square dancing group.Eighteen communities will be selected in Beijing, and they will be age matched and randomly grouped into walking, Chinese square dancing and control groups. Each community will include twenty subjects (ten patients with hypertension and ten patients with hypertension complicated with diabetes) aged 40-69 years. All exercise sessions will be supervised and subject's exercise implementation process will be managed with intelligent equipment. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of different training programs. The demographics data, physical activity questionnaires, blood pressure, blood glucose, blood lipids, height, weight and physical fitness （cardiorespiratory fitness，muscle strength, muscle endurance, flexibility, body composition） will be measured before and after 3-month exercise training .The adverse reactions in the implementation of the interventions will be recorded. The primary outcomes are blood pressure and blood glucose.
This study will determine whether an Actigraph GT3X accelerometer can identify body position and quantify step count in a ward based population recovering from critical illness.
Involuntary muscle activity, often called spasticity, is a common problem following spinal cord injury (SCI) that can make it hard to move. Many things can cause spasticity including: muscle stretch, movement, or it can happen for no reason, and it is often described as an uncontrolled muscle spasm or feeling of stiffness. Drugs are typically used to treat spasticity, but they often have side effects, like muscle weakness, which can add to movement problems. Rehabilitation therapies offer alternatives to drugs for treating involuntary muscle activity, and rehabilitation can also improve daily function and quality of life. These benefits may be greater when several rehabilitation therapies are used together. Walking ability can be improved with a type of therapy called "locomotor training". This type of therapy may also have the benefit of decreasing spasticity. When locomotor training (LT) is combined with electrical stimulation, the benefits of training may be increased. In this study, investigators will use a kind of stimulation called transcutaneous spinal cord stimulation ("TSS") to stimulate participants' spinal cord nerves during locomotor training.
This study will determine if a structured walking intervention will help maintain or improve physical activity levels, physical function and quality of life in hematopoietic stem cell transplant patients.
Walking is encouraged for people with type 2 diabetes but there is little evidence that performing a bout of walking can improve glucose control. Furthermore, it is unknown how participant characteristics (e.g., age, sex, medications) impact the acute glucose responses to walking in people with type 2 diabetes. The primary purpose of this study is to examine how a standardized bout of walking impacts glucose control assessed over 24 hours using continuous glucose monitoring. A secondary purpose is to determine whether responses are influenced by age, sex, and medication use.