STUDY OBJECTIVE To determine if a 3-min bout of moderately intensive supine bicycle exercise, whole-body periodic acceleration (pGz), and passive motorized cycling cause nitric oxide (NO) release into the circulation, as detected by dicrotic notch descent on the diastolic limb of a finger pulse wave. PARTICIPANTS Fourteen healthy adults underwent two levels of supine bicycle ergometry that ca...

BACKGROUND Delayed motor development is reported in patients with congenital heart disease (CHD). Exercise is widely used to facilitate motor development and improve motor ability. Exercise for adolescents and adults with CHD has been extensively studied. However, the evidence of exercise for infants with CHD is sparse. This study aims to identify the effect of passive movement and active exerc...

PURPOSE There are neural connections between the upper and lower limbs of humans that enable muscle activation in one limb pair (upper or lower) to modulate muscle activation in the other limb pair (lower or upper, respectively). The aims of this study were to extend previous findings regarding submaximal exercise to maximal effort exercise and determine whether there is an ipsilateral or contr...

BACKGROUND Animal models are necessary to study the mechanism underlying the effects of exercise on depression but an effective procedure for exercise treatment and exercise effects on physiological parameters in a specific depression model need to be characterized. METHODS Physiological parameters including lactate, partial pressue of O₂ (pO₂) and CO₂ (pCO₂) saturated O₂ (sO₂), pH, HCO₃, tot...

the purpose of this study was to compare the effects of active and passive recovery on immune system indexes after a graded exhaustive exercise in male college athletes. for this purpose, 20 college athletes of physical fitness training were selected by cooper test and their bmi and then they were divided into two groups randomly: group 1 (active recovery) and group 2 (passive recovery). each s...

BACKGROUND High-intensity of exercise or unaccustomed eccentric exercise can cause the phenomenon of Exercise-Induced Muscle Damage (EIMD) which usually results in cramps, muscle strain, impaired muscle function and delayed-onset muscle soreness. OBJECTIVES This study investigated the prophylactic effects of sauna towards the symptoms associated with muscle damage from eccentric exercises of ...

Music making has a number of beneficial effects for motor tasks compared to passive music listening. Given that recent research suggests that high energy musical activities elevate positive affect more strongly than low energy musical activities, we here investigated a recent method that combined music making with systematically increasing physiological arousal by exercise machine workout. We c...