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The Use of Vibration as an Exercise Intervention

Exercise and Sport Sciences Reviews, 2003
The use of vibration as a means for enhancing athletic performance is a recent issue in exercise physiology. Current evidence suggests that vibration is effective in enhancing strength and the power capacity of humans, although the mechanisms mediating this effect are unknown.
Marco, Cardinale, Carmelo, Bosco
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Exercise: a persistently underused intervention

BMJ, 2020
Research, 4 July We congratulate Zhao and colleagues on their timely study1 that very much falls into the category of research labelled “the road less travelled.” Exercise is a free intervention with the potential to prevent disease, reduce mortality, and reduce the healthcare …
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Exercise intervention for management of obesity

Pediatric Blood & Cancer, 2011
AbstractObesity touches the lives of most Americans regardless of age. In adults, accrual of co‐morbidities, including frank disability, impacts health in ways that mandate aggressive public health action. In children, the rising prevalence of overweight and obesity raises serious prospective concerns for life as these children enter adulthood.
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Effectiveness of a lifestyle intervention and a structured exercise intervention in older adults

Preventive Medicine, 2008
To evaluate the effects of a lifestyle intervention and a structured exercise intervention on physical activity in older adults.Participants were randomly assigned to a lifestyle intervention (n=60), including an individualized home-based program supported by phone calls, or to a structured intervention (n=60) consisting of three weekly supervised ...
Christophe Delecluse, Filip Boen, Joke Opdenacker   +2 more
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Exercise Interventions in Obese Youth: Are They Effective?

Journal of Pediatric Endocrinology and Metabolism, 2008
Given the increasing prevalence of childhood obesity, effective and cost-efficient strategies to enhance children's physical activity levels are needed. Unfortunately, exercise interventions evaluated to date have had little impact on overweight and obesity in youth.
Mélanie, Henderson, Denis, Daneman, Janet, Hux, Anthony, Hanley   +3 more
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Adherence to exercise interventions in the treatment of hypercholesterolemia

Journal of Behavioral Medicine, 1992
The goals of this study were to determine the rate of adherence to exercise treatment of hypercholesterolemia and to identify personality and demographic factors associated with adherence. Of the 31 subjects entering the 26-week program, 12 attended 80% or more of the scheduled sessions.
D J, Lynch, T J, Birk, M T, Weaver, A F, Gohara, R F, Leighton, F J, Repka, M E, Walsh   +6 more
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Exercise as a Counseling Intervention

Journal of Mental Health Counseling, 2003
The focus of wellness counseling is to guide individuals to live a healthy life in which body, mind, and spirit are integrated in order to experience fulfillment and happiness. Exercise undoubtedly has physical and psychological benefits in the human body and spirit.
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Exercise Intervention May Prevent Depression

International Journal of Sports Medicine, 2012
Physical activity is an effective component of depression management. However, the mechanisms by which exercise affects behavioral disorders remain unclear. The present study was conducted to investigate mechanisms by which voluntary exercise ameliorates depression.
S-B, He, W-G, Tang, W-J, Tang, X-L, Kao, C-G, Zhang, X-T, Wong   +5 more
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Exercise and obesity: Etiology, physiology, and intervention.

Psychological Bulletin, 1982
The relation between exercise and obesity is examined in terms of etiology, physiology, and treatment outcome. It was determined that the role of activity level and caloric intake in the development of obesity is currently unclear because of the methodological limitations of past research.
Thompson, Joel Kevin, Jarvie, Gregory J., Lahey, Benjamin B., Cureton, Kirk J.   +3 more
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Exercise as an Adjuvant Intervention in Opiate Dependence

Substance Abuse, 2013
We read with interest the article by Weinstock et al. in whichthe authors propose exercise as an adjuvant intervention inopiate agonist treatment based on current research findings(1).The use of an opiate agonist, such as buprenorphine, butmainly, methadone, for the treatment of opiate dependenceis currently an effective therapy for this type of ...
Helios, Pareja-Galeano, Fabian, Sanchis-Gomar, Sara, Mayero   +2 more
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