The executive physical offered by hospitals and larger medical practices incorporating an exercise test, alone or coupled with echo or nuclear heart imaging, has a long history of use.
Moreover, a Cochrane review [ 13] reported 13% (RR = 0.87, 95% CI 0.75, 0.99) and 26% (RR = 0.74, 95% CI 0.63, 0.87) reductions in all-cause and cardiovascular mortality, respectively, following exercise-only CR and comprehensive CR incorporating an exercise component.
Our results suggest that health-care providers can incorporate an exercise program in treatments to improve the health of postmenopausal women.
During presentations, study staff often show an informational video and may incorporate an exercise class demonstration.
Moreover, although we did not incorporate an exercise protocol, subjects in our study live in a hilly area at high altitude and are involved in agricultural work, firewood collection, and washing of clothes by hand, among other strenuous activities that are likely to challenge that cardiovascular system.
Yoga, aerobics, strength training, and resistance workouts can easily incorporate an exercise ball to make a workout easy while traveling.
Physiotherapy involves five treatment sessions over 6 months, incorporating a home exercise program of 4 6 exercises (targeting knee extensor and hip abductor strength) and advice to increase daily physical activity.
However, this finding is mitigated by the fact that beneficial effects were noted simply by increasing the amount of MPA performed each day, which is likely easier in it implementation than incorporating a vigorous exercise program into the routines of elderly patients.
Briefly, the Exercise component of the Exercise Plus Program is a home based exercise intervention administered by exercise trainers which incorporates an aerobic exercise program using a Stairstep (Yu-Yahiro et al 2001; Resnick et al 2007), a comprehensive strengthening program that covers all muscles groups, and stretching exercises which are part of the warm up and cool down periods.
An intervention incorporating a progressive resistance exercise programme, mobilisation and orientation was not effective in reducing delirium arising in hospital.
Incorporating an additional three recent exercise trials, our review collectively included 305 randomised controlled trials with 339 274 participants.
