Cardiorespiratory fitness is a major modifiable risk factor for cardiovascular diseases. People with bipolar disorder have a reduced cardiorespiratory fitness and its assessment within a multidisciplinary treatment therefore is necessary. We investigated the validity of the 6min walk test in people with bipolar disorder. A secondary aim was to assess clinical and demographic characteristics tha...

the aim of study was to investigate and compare the concentric torque of quadriceps and hamstring muscles and timed-walking test in two groups. thus, one group of healthy subjects and one group of patients with low grade of tibiofemoral osteoarthritis (oa) were selected. concentric torque of quadriceps and hamstring were measured in both groups. besides, pain measurement, timed-walking test, ra...

AIM The aim of the study was to describe daily physical activity levels of adolescents and young adults with bilateral spastic cerebral palsy (CP) and to identify factors that help predict these levels. METHOD Daily physical activity was measured using an accelerometer-based activity monitor in 45 young people with bilateral spastic CP (23 males, 22 females; mean age 18y 6mo [SD 2y 5mo] range...