Interventions comprising exercise and information programmes, performed among nursing home residents and hospitalised participants, have shown improvements in role-physical, role-emotional, pain and general health of HRQOL [ 7, 8].
The clinic sessions, which will commence with a warm-up and finish with a cool-down (comprising exercise on a cycle ergometer or treadmill at a relatively low intensity and stretching activities), will take approximately 60 minutes and will be conducted in local exercise facilities.
The Wellness Program comprises exercise and nutrition classes, spa treatments, fitness classes including yoga and Pilates and a specially designed selection of low-carb menu options.
These RCTs have comprised exercise and Comprehensive Geriatric Assessment (CGA) programmes and have shown significant improvements in physical function, physical health, mental health, social function, vitality and energy/fatigue of HRQOL in the intervention groups.
The RT program was a whole-body program with eight exercises comprising one exercise with free weights and seven with machines, performed exactly in the following order: chest press, horizontal leg press, seated row, knee extension, preacher curl (free weights), leg curl, triceps push-down, and seated calf raise.
These sessions will comprise exercises, games, and psychomotor practices prepared during the individual sessions.
These sessions comprise exercises for warming up followed by exercises to maintain or increase muscle strength and exercises to maintain or increase aerobic capacity.
7, 8 Regular exercises for patients with OA comprise exercises aiming at improvement of muscle strength, aerobic capacity, flexibility, and ability to perform daily weight-bearing activities such as walking, stair climbing, and transfers (eg, sitting down or standing up from a chair).
A "home-exercise program" comprising ten exercises was added to promote participants' capacity to exercise independently.
The multimodal intervention comprising group exercise in combination with an individualized home training program has been pre-tested successfully in another setting [ 40, 41].
It aims to comprise an exercise for one week in what would be a multi-week lab, though it can also serve as a standalone exercise as well.
