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Force Steadiness During a Cognitively Challenging Motor Task Is Predicted by Executive Function in Older Adults

Frontiers in Physiology, 2018
Motor performance and cognitive function both decline with aging. Older adults for example are usually less steady for a constant-force task than young adults when performing low-intensity contractions with limb muscles.
Hugo M. Pereira, Bonnie Schlinder-Delap, Kristy A. Nielson, Sandra K. Hunter   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The health benefits of exercise therapy for patients with Down syndrome: A systematic review

African Journal of Disability, 2019
Background Many patients with Down syndrome (PWDS) have poor cardiometabolic risk profiles, aerobic capacities and weak hypotonic muscles, primarily because of physical inactivity and poor diet.
Y. Paul, T. Ellapen, M. Barnard, H. Hammill, M. Swanepoel   +4 more
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Protocol for: Sheffield Obesity Trial (SHOT): A randomised controlled trial of exercise therapy and mental health outcomes in obese adolescents [ISRCNT83888112] [PDF]

, 2005
Background While obesity is known to have many physiological consequences, the psychopathology of this condition has not featured prominently in the literature.
A Nova, A Steptoe, AA Hedley, Amanda J Daley, American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM), B Saelens, C Caruso, Department of Health, GS Berenson, J Schwimmer, JD Brown, Jerry KH Wales, JO Prochaska, JR Whitehead, JV Freeman, JW McWhorter, K Calfas, K Kowalski, KL Lamb, KR Fox, LH Epstein, LLM Walker, LM Mellin, M Eisenberg, M Kovas, M Sothern, M Yelling, MR Stolley, MV Chakravarthy, Neil P Wright, P Gately, R Strauss, RJ Shephard, Robert J Copeland, S Biddle, S Chinn, S Erikson, S Harter, SL Friedlander, TJ Cole, TW Rowland, V Ebbeck, World Health Organisation   +42 more
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Exercise Therapy for the Management of Femoroacetabular Impingement Syndrome: Preliminary Results of Clinical Responsiveness

Arthritis care & research, 2019
To investigate the responsiveness to exercise therapy of patients with femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (FAIS), and to investigate differences in hip function, strength, and morphology between responders versus nonresponders.
N. Casartelli, M. Bizzini, N. Maffiuletti, R. Sutter, C. Pfirrmann, M. Leunig, F. Naal   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Effects of metformin and exercise training, alone or in association, on cardio-pulmonary performance and quality of life in insulin resistance patients [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Metformin (MET) therapy exerts positive effects improving glucose tolerance and preventing the evolution toward diabetes in insulin resistant patients.
Bandinu, Stefano, BARONI, Marco Giorgio, Bina, Alessandro, Cadeddu, Christian, Cossu, Efisio, Deidda, Martino, Fabio, Orru, Lucia, Cugusi, Mercuro, Giuseppe, Nocco, Silvio   +9 more
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Preoperative exercise therapy for gastrointestinal cancer patients: a systematic review

Systematic Reviews, 2018
BackgroundGastrointestinal cancer patients are susceptible to significant postoperative morbidity. The aim of this systematic review was to examine the effects of preoperative exercise therapy (PET) on patients undergoing surgery for GI malignancies ...
Sarah A. Vermillion, A. James, Robert D Dorrell, P. Brubaker, S. Mihalko, A. Hill, C. Clark   +6 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Tuberculosis and the Power of the State: Toward the Development of Rational Standards for the Review of Compulsory Public Health Powers [PDF]

, 1995
This article uses tuberculosis as the paradigm for exploring rational standards for the exercise of compulsory public health powers. Extant doctrine in disability and constitutional law provides a lens for examining judicial review of state interventions.
Gostin, Lawrence O.
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An integrated approach in a case of facioscapulohumeral dystrophy [PDF]

, 2014
BACKGROUND: Muscle fatigue, weakness and atrophy are basilar clinical features that accompany facioscapulohumeral dystrophy (FSHD) the third most common muscular dystrophy.No therapy is available for FSHD.
Berardinelli, Angela, D'Antona, Giuseppe, Giovanetti, Giuseppe, Longa, Emanuela, Magnani, Bruno, Pasotti, Stefano, Rossi, Albino, TUPLER, Rossella   +7 more
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Heat therapy vs. supervised exercise therapy for peripheral arterial disease: a 12-wk randomized, controlled trial.

American Journal of Physiology. Heart and Circulatory Physiology, 2019
Peripheral arterial disease (PAD) is characterized by lower limb atherosclerosis impairing blood supply and causing walking-induced leg pain or claudication.
Ashley P. Akerman, Kate N. Thomas, Andre M. van Rij, E. Dianne Body, M. Alfadhel, James D. Cotter   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Brainwave Activity Localization, Mood Symptoms, and Balance Impairment in a Male South African Rugby Player With Persisting Symptoms After Concussion: A Case Report

Clinical Case Reports
The case sets the foundation for clinical protocols to incorporate mobile EEG and qEEG techniques, instrumental balance testing, and mood symptom screening in athletes who have suffered a sports‐related concussion.
M. J. Lumb, N. Snegireva, A. M. Coetzee, K. E. Welman   +3 more
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