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The acute effects of aerobic exercise on sensorimotor adaptation in chronic stroke
medRxiv
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
2020
Abstract
Sensorimotor adaptation, or the capacity to adapt movement to changes in the moving body or environment, is a form of motor learning that is important for functional independence (e.g., regaining stability after slips or trips). Aerobic exercise can acutely improve many forms of motor learning in healthy adults. It is not known, however, whether acute aerobic exercise has similar positive effects on sensorimotor adaptation in stroke survivors as it does in healthy individuals.
Purpose: The aim of this study was to determine whether acute aerobic exercise promotes sensorimotor adaptation in people post stroke.
Methods: A single-blinded crossover study. Participants attended two separate sessions at the university campus, completing an aerobic exercise intervention in one session and a resting control condition in the other session. Sensorimotor adaptation was assessed before and after each session. Participants were twenty people with chronic stroke. Intervention completed was treadmill exercise at mod-high intensity for 30 minutes.
Results: Results demonstrated that acute aerobic exercise in chronic stroke survivors significantly increased sensorimotor adaptation from pre to post treadmill intervention.
Conclusion: These results indicate a potential role for aerobic exercise to promote the recovery of sensorimotor function in chronic stroke survivors.
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- Title
- The acute effects of aerobic exercise on sensorimotor adaptation in chronic stroke
- Authors
- Christopher Mackay (Author) - The University of QueenslandSandra G Brauer (Author) - The University of QueenslandSuzanne Kuys (Author) - Australian Catholic UniversityMia Schaumberg (Author) - University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, School of Health and Sport Sciences - LegacyLi-Ann Leow (Author) - The University of Queensland
- Publication details
- medRxiv
- Publisher
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press
- Date published
- 2020
- DOI
- 10.1101/2020.12.10.20231043
- Copyright note
- The copyright holder for this preprint (which was not certified by peer review) is the author/funder, who has granted medRxiv a license to display the preprint in perpetuity. It is made available under a CC-BY-NC-ND 4.0 International license.
- Organisation Unit
- School of Health - Biomedicine; University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Health and Sport Sciences - Legacy; Cancer Research Cluster; School of Health and Behavioural Sciences - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99494308802621
- Output Type
- Preprint
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