The purpose of this study was to determine the influence of simple, progressive lower body exercise training, focusing on strength and power, on functional abilities in frail older adults. Twenty-five residents of a long-term care facility (75-94 yrs) participated in this randomized controlled trial of 10-wks duration. The exercise group (Ex, n = 18) underwent simple, progressive lower body res...

QUESTIONS Is an 8-week progressive resistance exercise program effective for increasing strength in the wrist muscles of people with tetraplegia? Is it effective for improving muscle endurance and participants' perceptions about use of their hands for activities of daily living? DESIGN Randomised controlled trial with concealed allocation, assessor blinding, and intention-to-treat analysis. ...

Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a relentlessly progressive disease with a median survival of approximately 3 yrs. Measurements of airflow and lung volumes at rest are generally used to monitor the clinical course in this disorder. This study was designed to determine if a modified version of the 6-min walk test, called the timed walk test, accurately characterises disease severity and su...

A patient is described with a novel syndrome characterised by progressive muscular weakness, contractures, pupillary muscle dysfunction, and skeletal deformity. The main myopathological feature was an abundance of tubular aggregates in both type I and type II muscle fibres. Myopathies in which tubular aggregates are the defining feature are rare and either present with progressive muscle weakne...

UNLABELLED OBJECTIVE AND PATIENT: To report an atypical case of exercise-induced bilateral brachialis and brachioradialis rhabdomyolysis in a 25-year-old woman. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION Persistent focal muscle pain, atypical by its duration and intensity, even after moderate exercise, should prompt the search for rhabdomyolysis and discuss the possibility of acute compartment syndrome. MRI i...

O ver the last 15 yrs, cardiologists have had to face a progressive recognition that abnormalities in the ventilatory response to exercise are relevant features of the heart failure syndrome [1]. Prior pathophysiology studies have defined the mechanistic role of the lung (impaired perfusion and increased minute ventilation (V9E)) [2] and of the periphery (increased chemo/metaboreflex sensitivit...

Exercise is a stressful condition which produces a marked change in body function specially cardiovascular, respiratory and nervous activity. It has been a means of finding out. t.he physical capabilities and physiological responces of ao individual (1). We undertook a study to investigate cardiovascular and respiratory responces to graded exercise in untrained male subjects. Graded exercise on...

CRF is the most frequently reported symptom affecting up to 90% of cancer patients. CRF is distinguishable from normal tiredness in that CRF symptoms are severe, distressing, and are not relieved by rest or sleep. While the mechanisms and contributing factors that lead to CRF are unclear, good evidence exists for promoting exercise as an intervention to combat CRF. Currently, more than 20 RCTs ...