31 results match your criteria: "Rehabilitation Research Centre REVAL[Affiliation]"

Chronotropic incompetence is more frequent in obese adolescents and relates to systemic inflammation and exercise intolerance.

J Sport Health Sci

March 2023

Rehabilitation Research Centre (REVAL), Faculty of Rehabilitation Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt 3500, Belgium; Biomedical Research Institute (BIOMED), Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Hasselt 3500, Belgium; Heart Centre Hasselt, Jessa Hospital, Hasselt 3500, Belgium.

Background: Adults with obesity may display disturbed cardiac chronotropic responses during cardiopulmonary exercise testing, which relates to poor cardiometabolic health and an increased risk for adverse cardiovascular events. It is unknown whether cardiac chronotropic incompetence (CI) during maximal exercise is already present in obese adolescents and, if so, how that relates to cardiometabolic health.

Methods: Sixty-nine obese adolescents (body mass index standard deviation score = 2.

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Balance control in individuals with developmental coordination disorder: A systematic review and meta-analysis.

Gait Posture

January 2021

Rehabilitation Research Centre (REVAL), Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building A, 3590, Diepenbeek, Belgium.

Background: Although it is recognized that the majority of children with developmental coordination disorder (DCD) have balance deficits, comprehensive insights into which balance domains are affected, are still lacking in literature.

Research Question: To what extent is balance control deficient in individuals with DCD compared to controls?

Methods: Pubmed, Scopus and Web of Science were systematically searched. Risk of bias was assessed with the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network checklist for case-control studies.

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The Antwerp Vestibular Compensation Index (AVeCI): an index for vestibular compensation estimation, based on functional balance performance.

Eur Arch Otorhinolaryngol

June 2021

Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy/Movant, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Antwerp, Universiteitsplein 1, 2610, Wilrijk, Belgium.

Purpose: To create an index that is a measure of the amount of vestibular compensation and for which only functional balance performance is needed.

Methods: The medical charts of 62 eligible peripheral vestibular dysfunction (PVD) patients were analyzed retrospectively. To be included, the following vestibulo-ocular reflex (VOR) and balance performance data had to be available: (1) caloric and sinusoidal harmonic acceleration test (SHA) and (2) standing balance sum-eyes closed (SBS-EC), Timed Up and Go Test and Dynamic Gait Index.

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A Systematic Review on Balance Performance in Patients With Bilateral Vestibulopathy.

Phys Ther

August 2020

Department of Rehabilitation Sciences and Physiotherapy/Movant, Faculty of Medicine and Health Science, University of Antwerp; Multidisciplinary Motor Centre Antwerp (M2OCEAN), University of Antwerp.

Objective: Patients with bilateral vestibulopathy (BVP) have severe balance deficits, but it is unclear which balance measures are best suited to quantify their deficits and approximate the diversity of their self-reports. The purpose of this study was to explore measures of balance control for quantifying the performance of patients with BVP related to different balance domains, allowing targeted assessment of response to intervention.

Methods: MEDLINE, Web of Science, and Embase were systematically searched on October 9, 2019.

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Introduction: This study examines the role of nutritional status during exercise training in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus by investigating the effect of endurance-type exercise training in the fasted versus the fed state on clinical outcome measures, glycemic control, and skeletal muscle characteristics in male type 2 diabetes patients.

Methods: Twenty-five male patients (glycated hemoglobin (HbA1c), 57 ± 3 mmol·mol (7.4% ± 0.

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Is walking capacity in subjects with multiple sclerosis primarily related to muscle oxidative capacity or maximal muscle strength? A pilot study.

Mult Scler Int

March 2014

Rehabilitation Research Centre (REVAL), Biomedical Research Institute, Faculty of Medicine and Life Sciences, Hasselt University, Agoralaan Building A, 3590 Diepenbeek, Belgium.

Background and Purpose. Walking capacity is reduced in subjects with multiple sclerosis (MS). To develop effective exercise interventions to enhance walking capacity, it is important to determine the impact of factors, modifiable by exercise intervention (maximal muscle strength versus muscle oxidative capacity), on walking capacity.

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