As COVID-19 reaches record levels in the UK, health experts are calling for a focus on children’s physical fitness as new research reveals concerning changes to children’s health and physical fitness following the pandemic.
Tapping into positive emotions and social connections may be key to motivating older adults to exercise. DePaul University psychology professor Joseph Mikels has been awarded a $2.6 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to continue his work on emotion, aging and decision-making throughout the life span.
Scientists sought to determine whether high blood glucose blunts the body’s response to exercise and whether lowering it can restore the ability to improve aerobic capacity with training.
A robotic waist tether pulls at a wearer’s center of mass to reduce the energy needed to walk, offering a new potential approach for assistive rehabilitation.
Study Used Wearable Tech to Foster Activity in High-Risk, Diverse Populations
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New research into human speed from a team at SMU (Southern Methodist University,) and West Chester University suggests that athletes who performed short sprints with their arms closed across their chests were nearly as fast as when they sprinted with their normal arm swing.
Studies have shown that exercise helps protect brain cells. A new study looking at the mechanisms involved in this relationship suggests that the role exercise plays in maintaining insulin and body mass index levels may help protect brain volume and thus help stave off dementia. The research is published in the April 13, 2022, online issue of Neurology®, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
A new fitness tracker developed by the University of South Australia is helping predict sports performance among Australian cricketers to elevate their performance to the next level.
(INDIANAPOLIS) — Autism spectrum disorder, or ASD, is the world’s fastest-growing developmental disability, affecting 1 in 44 children in the United States alone. Fortunately, exercise provides many benefits for those with autism, including improvements to quality of life and management of stereotypical behaviors like verbal repetition and hand-flapping.
Cycling for 35 minutes three times a week for 12 weeks led to a 32 per cent increase in overall fitness in people with MD. Patients who took part in the study also saw a 1.6-kilogram increase in their muscle mass and a two per cent reduction of body fat. They were also able to walk an extra 47 metres in six minutes, when tested by researchers at the end of the 12-week trial. Eleven patients took part in the study.
مدينة روتشستر، ولاية مينيسوتا- بعد زيارة المئات من المرضى المصابين بفيروس كورونا المستجد طويل الأمد، والمعروفة أيضًا باسم متلازمة ما بعد فيروس كورونا المستجد، تعلم جريج فانيشكاتورن، دكتور الطب وزملاؤه في مايو كلينك الكثير عن الخطوات المبكرة في التعافي. وتضمن ذلك إدراك الخطوات التي يمكن للأشخاص اتخاذها بمفردهم لبدء التعافي. فيما يلي خمس نصائح من الدكتور فانيشكاتورن حول كيفية البدء في هزيمة متلازمة ما بعد فيروس كورونا المستجد:
通过访视数百名有COVID长期症状（也称为COVID后综合征）患者，妙佑医疗国际(Mayo Clinic)的Greg Vanichkachorn医学博士及其同事们学习到很多关于康复可采行的早期步骤。这其中包括患者对可以自行采取的康复起始步骤的认识。Vanichkachorn医生就如何展开对抗COVID后综合症提出了以下五项建议：
Após visitar centenas de pacientes com COVID longa, também conhecida como síndrome pós-COVID, Greg Vanichkachorn, M.D. e seus colegas da Mayo Clinic aprenderam muito sobre os passos iniciais da recuperação. Isso inclui o entendimento de que há passos que as pessoas podem dar por conta própria para começarem a se recuperar.
Después de atender a cientos de pacientes con covid prolongada, también conocido como síndrome poscovid, el Dr. Greg Vanichkachorn y sus colegas en Mayo Clinic han aprendido mucho acerca de las primeras medidas para la recuperación, incluido el hecho de que las personas mismas pueden tomar ciertas medidas para empezar a recuperarse.
After visiting with hundreds of patients with long COVID, also known as post-COVID syndrome, Greg Vanichkachorn, M.D., and his colleagues at Mayo Clinic have learned a lot about the early steps in recovery. That includes the realization that there are steps people can take on their own to start recovering. Here are five tips from Dr. Vanichkachorn on how to start defeating post-COVID syndrome...
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The tool being used to diagnose concussions might be overestimating the condition and wrongly identifying symptoms like fatigue and neck pain caused from intense exercise and not a brain injury, according to Rutgers researchers. This new research raises new questions about the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool (SCAT), a questionnaire widely used along with other methods to diagnose concussions sustained during sports. Findings were presented at the American Physiological Society annual meeting April 5.
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