Community-based exercise and physical activity programmes led by exercise professionals for osteoarthritis

Effects of exercise and physical activity on knee osteoarthritis.

Exercise is one of the most discussed and controversial nonpharmacologic management strategies for osteoarthritis (OA) of the knee. Health care providers and patients share varied and often pseudoscientific beliefs regarding the effects of exercise on knee OA formulated on outdated notions of the etiology, pathophysiology, and progression of the condition. Based on the contemporary literature, ...

Exercise programmes for people with osteoarthritis of the knees

Physical Activity and Exercise Recommendations in Pregnancy; a Review Study

Many women today tend to exercise during pregnancy. Given the importance of this period of life, the present study was conducted to investigate the effects of exercise on pregnancy and the recommendations that should be considered. According to studies, despite physiological and anatomical changes in pregnancy, physical activity in improving cardiovascular fitness, preventing overweight, preven...

Research report: physical fitness and exercise programmes for adult women.

The plethora of evening exercise classes for adult women leads one to assume that a reasonable proportion of our female population is motivated toward improving its physical well-being. Whether this is so, or whether the classes are more "social" gatherings, is debatable, as indeed is the question concerning the actual physiological effects of such programmes. The lack of relevant research and ...

Evaluation of cardiovascular risk-lowering health benefits accruing from laboratory-based, community-based and exercise-referral exercise programmes

BACKGROUND To evaluate the ability of community-based exercise programmes to facilitate public participation in exercise and hence improved cardiovascular health, we assessed the respective impacts of: a continuously monitored exercise programme based within our university (study 1); a Valleys Regional Park-facilitated community-based outdoor exercise programme (study 2); a Wales National Exerc...