Publications by authors named "Aurora James-Palmer"
Objectives: Despite current standard treatments, persons with Parkinson disease (PD) still experience motor and non-motor symptoms that impact daily function and quality of life, warranting the investigation of additional interventions. Holistic complementary interventions such as yoga have been shown to be beneficial for persons with PD. However, there are multiple barriers to in-person interventions such as transportation difficulties and disease-related mobility impairments which may be mitigated by digital health applications.
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- The popularity of yoga has soared, but many can't access in-person classes, leading to increased remote yoga usage; however, the existing research on this is unclear.
- This scoping review aimed to identify gaps in literature regarding remote yoga interventions, focusing on participant populations, delivery methods, safety, feasibility, and preliminary effectiveness.
- The review analyzed 12 studies of varying quality, finding that most used pre-recorded methods and included diverse yoga styles but could not determine consistent effectiveness due to the heterogeneity of the studies.
Background: Active video games have been embraced for the rehabilitation of mobility and promotion of physical activity for persons post-stroke. This study seeks to compare carefully matched standard of care stepping activities, off-the-shelf (non-custom) active video games and custom active video games that are either self-paced or game-paced for promoting neuromuscular intensity and accuracy, cardiovascular intensity, enjoyment and perceived effort.
Methods: Fifteen persons (ages 38-72) with mild to moderate severity in the chronic phase post-stroke (average 8 years) participated in a single group counter balanced repeated measures study.
The purpose of this review is to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of yoga for the reduction of symptoms of anxiety and depression in youth. To our knowledge, there are no systematic reviews to date looking at the reduction of symptoms of both anxiety and depression. Numerous scientific databases were searched up to November 2018 for experimental studies assessing changes in symptoms of anxiety and/or depression in youths following yoga interventions.
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