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Content ArticleThe relationship between exercise and stroke recurrence is controversial. This study from Hou et al. was designed to test whether an association exists between exercise and ischemic stroke recurrence in first-ever ischemic stroke survivors. It found that stroke survivors who engage in long-term regular mild exercise (more than 5 sessions per week and lasting on average 40 min per session) have a lower recurrence rate; however, irregular exercise increases the risk of stroke recurrence.
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Content ArticleIn October 2014, the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh launched a UK-wide education campaign to get patients moving in the run-up to surgery. Addressing this costly and avoidable matter, the campaign asks patients to speak with their surgeon or GP to work out an exercise plan that suits their condition and the type of operation they will undergo.
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Understanding Covid-19 as a vascular disease and its implications for exercise
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Content ArticleWorld Physiotherapy is the international voice for physiotherapy, representing more than 685,000 physiotherapists worldwide, through 125 member organisations. Recognising the lack of good quality evidence relating to Long Covid and physical activity, this briefing paper aims to support healthcare professionals to provide safe and effective Long Covid rehabilitation practice, research and policy. It recommends screening for post-exertional symptom exacerbation (PACS), cardiac impairment, exertional oxygen desaturation and autonomic dysfunction before exercise is recommended to people with symptoms of Long Covid.
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Content ArticleWe need urgent radical solutions for the crisis in social care, to prevent the collapse not just of the NHS but of the entire UK economy. Social care is facing extreme difficulties with funding and workforce shortages. Staff are poorly paid, and 10% of posts are vacant. The situation is about to get worse: 19% of the UK population is over 65. In Northern Ireland the number of people over 65 more than doubled between the censuses in 2011 and 2021. Projections show that each person will need an average of 10 years of social care. We must, then, focus on prevention. The need for social care is not inevitable. Ageing does not have to be associated with a loss of fitness. Exercise and strength training can restore muscle and balance and are proved to reduce the impact of falls and fractures.
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Content ArticleIn this blog from the BMJ, Scarlett McNally, consultant orthopaedic surgeon at Eastbourne District General Hospital, argues that getting older and becoming frail are two different things; frailty can usually be prevented with exercise. She goes on to say, "we cannot afford for 1 in 4 people across the UK population to do no exercise at all. We cannot afford a decade of social care for every person in the country. And we cannot afford the misery and costs of so many people getting illnesses that might never have happened. Resigning ourselves to these fates cannot remain 'normal'.”
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Content ArticleThe results of this study, published in the Journal of Translational Medicine, confirm previous work that demonstrated an abnormal response to exercise in fatigued ME/CFS patients.
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