objectives: this study was conducted in order to analyse the effect of flat pyramid loading pattern (fplp) weight training on salivary steroids levels in strength training athletes. methods: eleven elite male weightlifters trained six days per week for one month. five millilitres of unstipulated whole saliva was obtained pre- and five minutes post-exercise at days first, 15th, and 30th. results...

Cardiac rehabilitation is believed to increase myocardial perfusion reserve (MPR), but this has not been adequately studied because of poor delineation of infarcted myocardium in previous studies. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of cardiac rehabilitation on MPR in the remote and infarcted myocardium with contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging; 39 postinfarction patie...

effect of 12-week aquatic trainning on the quality of life in women with multiple sclerosis     shanazari z [1] *, marandi sm [2] , mehrabi ha [3]     received: 12 oct , 2013 accepted: 28 dec , 2013     abstract   background & aims: multiple sclerosis is a chronic and debilitating nervous system in which the myelin of the central nervous system (brain and spinal cord) is destroyed. the disease ...

This study investigated the 1-year longitudinal effect of professional training in adolescent runners on redox balance during intense endurance exercise. Changes in selected serum oxidant and antioxidant status in response to a 21-km running time trial in 10 runners (15.5 ± 1.3 years) undergoing professional training were evaluated twice in 12 months (pre- and post-evaluation). Venous blood sam...

BACKGROUND Passive training of specific locomotor muscle groups by means of neuromuscular electrical stimulation (NMES) might be better tolerated than whole body exercise in patients with severe chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). It was hypothesised that this novel strategy would be particularly effective in improving functional impairment and the consequent disability which characte...

BACKGROUND Anorexia nervosa is an eating disorder that is often preceded by excessive physical activity. As such, exercise is not often prescribed in the clinical management of individuals with anorexia nervosa. OBJECTIVE To examine the effects of supervised exercise training in patients with anorexia nervosa. DATA SOURCES Five databases were searched from their inception to Week 14 of 2011...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of self exercise in cardiac rehabilitation on cardiopulmonary exercise capacity for selected patients with coronary artery disease. METHOD The subjects of this study were patients who received percutaneous coronary intervention (PCI) or coronary artery bypass graft (CABG) surgery and who participated in a cardiac rehabilitation program. The supervised exerc...