A Personal Reflection on Physical Activity, Health, and Wellness: Developments and Advancements for People with Spinal Cord Injury

Chase, Terry

doi:10.1310/kjhp-7meq-r5ln-888r

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“…Physical activity has been established to provide many health benefits in both cardiovascular patients and the general population. Nevertheless, up to 31 % world population do not meet the current minimum recommendation on physical activity (Kohl et al, 2012) At the especial risk of hypertension development as a result of the sedentary lifestyle there are people with a long-term spinal cord injury (Adriaansen et al, 2017;Chase, 2004). However, novel forms of exercise provide the health benefits of recommended physical activity for people who are unable or unwilling to undertake the conventional forms of exercise.…”

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2019

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The major objective of this study was to investigate the blood pressure response after ten weeks of acroyoga and whole body electromyostimulation training programme. Twenty-eight young non-smokers and non-sportive women (21.5±1.9 years; 166.2±6.6 cm, 61.8±6.7 kg; BMI 22.4±2.44 kg/m 2 ; fat-free mass 25.4±2.56 kg; < 60 minutes regular physical activity per week) participated in the study, 10 in an whole-body electromyostimulation (WB-EMS) group, 10 in an acroyoga group and the remaining 8 in a control group. The most meaningful results to emerge from the data is that acro yoga exercise programme (AYEP) and WB-EMS group led to a postexercise decrease in BP. A clear benefit of AYEP was identified in the analysis. The results indicate statistical significant difference in AYEP group between the beginning and the end of study (SBP pre-test :

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confidence: 99%