Publications by authors named "Bente Brauwers"
Article Synopsis
- Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) causes significant health issues and high healthcare costs, leading to reduced physical activity and various muscle and body composition problems.
- Pulmonary rehabilitation aims to address these issues by providing personalized therapies that enhance both the physical and emotional well-being of patients.
- While many studies have looked at exercise and nutritional or drug treatments separately for improving outcomes in COPD patients, there is a lack of research on the combined effects of these approaches, which this review seeks to explore.
Background: Persons with multiple sclerosis (pwMS) experience walking impairments, characterized by decreased walking speeds. In healthy subjects, the self-selected walking speed is the energetically most optimal. In pwMS, the energetically most optimal walking speed remains underexposed.
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