Noninvasive monitoring of cerebrovascular autoregulation response to resistance exercises.

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVE. A novel noninvasive monitor is presented by demonstrating its capabilities to perform the real-time estimation of dynamics in cerebrovascular autoregulation in athletes during their training. The aim was to explore the characteristics of human cerebrovascular autoregulation by performing the monitoring of cerebrovascular autoregulation responses to resistance exercises in healthy volunteer athletes.

Effect of visual feedback information on isometric contraction of forearm flexor muscles in men and women after ischemic stroke.

Unlabelled: The aim of this study was to determine the effect of visual feedback information (VFI) on the isometric contraction of the forearm flexor muscles in men and women after an ischemic stroke when doing a physical load at 20% of strength.

Material And Methods: The study included healthy subjects (n=20) and subjects after ischemic stroke (n=20). The study was conducted in Lithuanian Sports University.

Gender-dependent bimanual task performance.

Background And Objective: Many studies have suggested that each hand has a different special talent; however, there is a lack of data in the area of goal-directed bimanual hand coordination and its dependence on gender. The aim of this paper was to investigate gender-dependent bimanual speed-accuracy task performance.

Material And Methods: Twelve healthy young males and twelve healthy young females (all right-handed) performed protractile movements with both arms simultaneously by pushing joysticks toward two targets as quickly and accurately as possible.

[Influence of heating and cooling on muscle fatigue and recovery].

The aim of the present study was to establish the influence of muscle heating and cooling on knee flexors and extensors during fatiguing exercise. The participants of the study were 10 healthy males aged 19-23 years. The participants of the study were tested with the isokinetic dynamometer.

Dynamics of indirect symptoms of skeletal muscle damage after stretch-shortening exercise.

Healthy untrained men (age 20.4+/-1.7 years, n=20) volunteered to participate in an experiment in order to establish dynamics of indirect symptoms of skeletal muscle damage (ISMD) (decrease in maximal isometric voluntary contraction torque (MVCT) and torque evoked by electrostimulation at different frequencies and at different quadriceps muscle length, height (H) of drop jump (DJ), muscle soreness and creatine kinase (CK) activity in the blood) after 100 DJs from 0.

[The effectiveness of physical therapy methods (Bobath and motor relearning program) in rehabilitation of stroke patients].

The purpose of this study was to examine whether two different physiotherapy regimes caused any differences in outcome in the rehabilitation after stroke. We examined 240 patients with stroke. Examination was carried out at the Rehabilitation Center of Kaunas Second Clinical Hospital.