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Topic- Exercise
Muscle strength aids function for people with knee osteoarthritis
Physical performance, measured by the Short Physical Performance Battery (SPPB), was evaluated on 553 people 65 years and older who had knee osteoarthritis.
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Even a little physical activity is beneficial
The physical activity guidelines published by the World Health Organization, Canadian Society for Exercise Physiology and the US Department of Health & Human Services recommend 150 minutes/week of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity, accumulated in bouts of 10 minutes or longer (ICAA Functional U®, January-February 2011). What about activity that is moderate or vigorous, but lasts less than 10 minutes?
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Do patients follow a Green Prescription?
In New Zealand, primary care physicians can write a Green Prescription advising patients who are 65 years and older to include physical activity as part of their health management plan (ICAA Research Review, 12[23] June 2012). As part of the ongoing follow-up to the Green Prescription program, researchers asked physicians about the barriers to activity faced by their older patients.
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Strength training may help reduce cognitive decline
Physical activity guidelines for older adults include recommendations for aerobic exercise as well as resistance training. Earlier this year, a study showed that resistance training was as effective as aerobic exercise for reducing the risk of diabetes (ICAA Research Review, 12[29] August 2012). Noting that previous literature has focused primarily on aerobic exercise as a lifestyle factor that could prevent or moderate cognitive decline, the authors of a new review examined the effects of resistance training on different parameters of cognition.
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Exercise reduces frailty
Frailty may be identified with three of five factors: unintended weight loss (more than 10 pounds in the past year), general feeling of exhaustion on three or more days per week, muscle weakness, slow walking speed or low levels of physical activity (American Physical Therapy Association). According to the background in a new study, 7% of people ages 65-74, 18% of those ages 75-84, and 37% of individuals over the age of 85 are considered frail.
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Midlife exercise lowers risk of chronic disease
Chronic health conditions have become a dominant health issue globally. In 2011, the World Health Organization published an action plan to control noncommunicable diseases (ICAA Research Review, 11[34] September 2011), such as heart disease and stroke, which have overtaken infectious disease as the leading causes of death around the world.
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