Does a cycling program combined with education and followed by coaching promote physical activity in subacute stroke patients? A randomized controlled trial.

Background: To investigate the effects of a three month active cycling program followed by coaching on physical activity in subacute stroke patients.

Methods: Patients (n = 59; mean age =65.4 ± 10.

Effectiveness of Active Cycling in Subacute Stroke Rehabilitation: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

Objective: To examine the effects of 3 months of aerobic training (AT) followed by coaching on aerobic capacity, strength, and gait speed after subacute stroke.

Design: Randomized controlled trial.

Setting: Inpatient rehabilitation center.

Physical activity in chronic home-living and sub-acute hospitalized stroke patients using objective and self-reported measures.

Background: Despite confirmed reduced physical activity (PA) after stroke in various stages of recovery, the type of activities stroke patients executed and the time spent at different activity levels have not been sufficiently verified with stroke-validated assessment tools.

Design: Observational study.

Objective: To determine PA of sub-acute stroke patients hospitalized in a rehabilitation centre (HOS) compared to chronic home-living stroke patients (HOM) using objective and self-reported measures during 2 weekdays and 1 weekend day.

An overview of the applied definitions and diagnostic methods to assess exercise oscillatory ventilation--a systematic review.

The variable "exercise oscillatory ventilation" (EOV), assessed during cardiopulmonary exercise test (CPET), recently became a fundamental prognostic parameter in patients with heart failure. In literature, various definitions are suggested, but an uniformly accepted description to identify EOV still lacks. We performed a systematic review of the literature in order to determine the different definitions and diagnostic techniques to assess EOV.

Is a coded physical activity diary valid for assessing physical activity level and energy expenditure in stroke patients?

Objectives: to determine the concurrent validity of a physical activity diary for measuring physical activity level and total energy expenditure in hospitalized stroke patients.

Method: Sixteen stroke patients kept coded activity diaries and wore SenseWear Pro2 multi-sensor activity monitors during daytime hours for one day. A researcher observed the patients and completed a diary.

Physical activity monitoring in stroke: SenseWear Pro2 activity accelerometer versus Yamax Digi-Walker SW-200 pedometer.

Purpose: Determine validity and reliability of SenseWear Pro2 Armband (SWP2A) and Yamax Digi-Walker SW-200 Pedometer (YDWP) in stroke and healthy adults.

Methods: Fifteen stroke patients and 15 healthy participants wore SWP2A on upper arm and YDWP at hip/knee. Different activities were performed: treadmill walking, walking up/down a step, cycling and walking on an even surface.

Evolution of cardiorespiratory fitness after stroke: a 1-year follow-up study. Influence of prestroke patients' characteristics and stroke-related factors.

Objectives: To examine changes in cardiorespiratory fitness over the first year poststroke and explore the effect of prestroke patients' characteristics and stroke-related factors on this evolution.

Design: Descriptive, longitudinal study with repeated measures of exercise capacity at 3, 6, and 12 months poststroke.

Setting: Rehabilitation center and exercise testing laboratory.

Monitoring of physical activity after stroke: a systematic review of accelerometry-based measures.

Objective: To assess the clinimetric properties and clinical applicability of different accelerometry-based measurement techniques in persons with stroke.

Data Sources: A systematic search of literature was performed using a specific search strategy by means of different electronic databases until October 2008 (PubMed, EMBASE, CINAHL, Cochrane Library of Clinical Trials).

Study Selection: A first selection was made by means of title and abstract.

Metabolic syndrome in youth: a cross-sectional school-based survey.

Aim: To assess the prevalence of metabolic syndrome (MetS) among students attending vocational secondary school (VSE). VSE provides practice-oriented education in which young people learn a specific occupation. Previously we reported VSE to be the type of education with the highest prevalence of overweight and obesity.