BACKGROUND The aim of this study was to compare post-exercise hypotension after acute sessions of water-walking and land-walking in healthy trained and untrained women. METHODS Twenty-three untrained (n = 12) and trained (n = 11) normotensive women performed two walking sessions in water and on land at 40% of peak VO(2) for 45 minutes. Systolic and diastolic blood pressure and mean arterial p...

For a fixed amount of time engaged in physical activity, activity choice may affect body weight differently depending partly on other activities’ displacement. Typical models used to evaluate effects of physical activity on body weight do not directly address these substitutions. An isotemporal substitution paradigm was developed as a new analytic model to study the time-substitution effects of...

First research results on responses to pole walking training were published in 1992 by Stoughton, Larkin and Karavan from the University of Oregon. They studied psychological profiles (mood states) as well as muscular and aerobic fitness responses before and after 12 weeks of Exerstriding or walking training in sedentary women. Exerstriding is a modified form of walking that incorporates the us...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether 10 minutes of treadmill walking had a different effect on overground walking pattern compared with 10 minutes of overground walking in newly ambulatory stroke patients. Are any changes influenced by walking ability? DESIGN A within-participant, repeated measures experimental study was conducted. Each participant carried out 10 minutes of overground walking pract...

background : breast cancer is the first-rank malignancy in women. although surgery is the most common method of treatment, patients experience many threats both from the cancer and from the surgery itself. exercises such as walking can improve body mass index, attitudes and life quality of patients. the aim of the present study was to determine the effect of walking on physical aspect of qualit...

Breakthrough cancer pain (BTcP) is common, resulting in significant physical and psychosocial morbidity. We assessed the impact of BTcP on 81 cancer patients attending Irish specialist palliative care services. BTcP occurred up to twice daily in 24 (30%) and 3-4 times daily in 57 (70%) of cases. Median scores for the 'worst' and 'least' pains in the previous 24 hours were 7 and 2/10 respectivel...

Methods: Uniquely comparable national travel surveys for the U.S. (NHTS 2001 and 2009) and Germany (MiD 2002 and 2008) were used to calculate the number, duration, and distance of active trips per capita. The population-weighted person and trip fıles for each survey were merged to calculate population levels of anywalking/cycling, walking/cycling 30minutes/day, and achieving 30 minutes in bouts...