Publications by authors named "Sander Oorschot"
Objectives: To determine the content validity of cardiopulmonary exercise testing (CPET) for assessing peak oxygen uptake (VO) in neuromuscular diseases (NMD).
Design: Baseline assessment of a randomized controlled trial.
Setting: Academic hospital.
Objective: To determine the physical strain of walking and assess its relationship with daily steps and intensity of daily activity in people with neuromuscular diseases.
Design: Cross-sectional study.
Subjects/patients: Sixty-one adults with neuromuscular diseases.
Background: Home-based aerobic exercise in people with neuromuscular diseases (NMDs) has benefits compared to exercise in the hospital or a rehabilitation center because traveling is often cumbersome due to mobility limitations, and societal costs are lower. Barriers to home-based aerobic exercise include reduced possibilities for monitoring and lack of motivation. To overcome these and other barriers, we developed a mobile health app: Keep on training with ReVi (hereafter referred to as ReVi).
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- The study aimed to explore the relationship between heart rate and perceived exertion during maximal exercise tests and home-based aerobic training for individuals with neuromuscular diseases.
- Participants included those with Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, post-polio syndrome, or other neuromuscular conditions, who engaged in a 4-month aerobic training program monitored through heart rates and perceived exertion ratings.
- Results showed a strong correlation between heart rate and perceived effort during testing, but notable differences in effort perception during training, suggesting potential issues with under- or over-training that healthcare professionals should consider.
Background: Aerobic exercise aims to improve aerobic capacity.
Objective: To summarize the evidence on the efficacy of aerobic exercise on aerobic capacity in slowly progressive neuromuscular diseases (NMDs).
Methods: We searched the electronic databases MEDLINE, EMBASE, SPORTDiscus and Web of Science Conference Proceedings Index for articles published up to June 17, 2021, selecting randomized controlled trials that included adults with slowly progressive NMDs and compared aerobic exercise to no aerobic exercise.
Background: In individuals with neuromuscular diseases (NMD), symptoms of muscle weakness, fatigue and pain may limit physical activity. Inactivity leads to reduced physical fitness, which further complicates daily life functioning. Due to inconclusive evidence regarding exercise in NMD, the optimal training approach and strategies to preserve an active lifestyle remain to be determined.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThere is a growing impetus towards usage of test batteries in talent identification (TID) programmes in rugby. Consequently, there are many test batteries in existence profiling anthropometric, physiological characteristics and rugby-specific skills. There is no consensus in the literature on the constituent variables and corresponding tests required to inform TID programs.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA systematic review investigating measurement properties of physiological tests in rugby.
BMC Sports Sci Med Rehabil
December 2017
Background: This systematic review was conducted with the first objective aimed at providing an overview of the physiological characteristics commonly evaluated in rugby and the corresponding tests used to measure each construct. Secondly, the measurement properties of all identified tests per physiological construct were evaluated with the ultimate purpose of identifying tests with strongest level of evidence per construct.
Methods: The review was conducted in two stages.
Psychometric evaluation of commonly used game-specific skills tests in rugby: A systematic review.
BMJ Open Sport Exerc Med
December 2017
Objectives: To (1) give an overview of commonly used game-specific skills tests in rugby and (2) evaluate available psychometric information of these tests.
Methods: The databases PubMed, MEDLINE CINAHL and Africa Wide information were systematically searched for articles published between January 1995 and March 2017. First, commonly used game-specific skills tests were identified.