Effects of Pilates and yoga in patients with chronic neck pain: A sonographic study

Abstract

All 3 types of exercise had favourable effects on pain and functional scores, but no differences were found among the groups, except for the Pilates group, in which the semispinalis capitis muscle increased in thickness.

Effect of different levels of exercise on telomere length: A systematic review and meta-analysis

“…includes breathing exercises and meditation, was also found to be positively associated with telomere length. Breathing exercises and meditative components have been shown to have positive effects on psychological health, including alleviation of stress, anxiety and depression, which are significantly associated with shortened telomere length (50,51).…”

Effectiveness and optimal dosage of exercise training for chronic non-specific neck pain: A systematic review with a narrative synthesis

“…Multiple reports of the same trial were collated for Waling et al, 2002 [48-50], Bobos PLOS ONE et al, 2016 [51,52], Ylinen et al, 2007 [53-56], and Chiu et al, 2005 [57, 58]. Data extraction was completed for 26 trials [13,14,49,51,54,57,[59][60][61][62][63][64][65][66][67][68][69][70][71][72][73][74][75][76][77][78]. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0234511.g001 Table 1.…”

“…Exercise training classifications, definitions, and example exercises. [59,60,63]; upper limb exercises [49,68]; motor control + pillar exercises [71]; motor control + segmental exercises [63,64]; motor control + segmental exercises + another intervention [51,57]; motor control + segmental + pillar exercises [69]; pillar exercises + another intervention [77,78]; pillar + upper limb exercises [61]; pillar + upper limb exercises + another…”

“…Table 2 provides a brief description of exercise training programmes and dosage. ET was delivered via supervised sessions [13,49,54,57,60,65,68,70,73,75,76], a home exercise programme [63,69,74] or a combination of the two [14,51,59,61,62,64,66,67,71,72,77,78], using a range of equipment including resistance bands [51,54,62,65,74,77], biofeedback pressure units [13,51,57,59,60,63,64,69,70,[72][73][74][75], dumbbells [14,54,61,…”

Life after ultrasound: Are we speaking the same (or a new) language in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine?

“…"Seeing is believing", and factors that can be visualized can also be (semi)quantified ( Fig. 1A) (4,5).…”