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- Title
- Duration of physical activity is normal but frequency is reduced after stroke : an observational study
- Related
- Journal of physiotherapy, Vol. 57, Issue 1, (2011), p.47-51
- Related
- http://ajp.physiotherapy.asn.au/AJP/vol_57/1/JPhysiotherv57i1Alzahrani.pdf
- Publisher
- Australian Physiotherapy Association
- Date
- 2011
- Author/Creator
- Alzahrani, Matar Abdullah
- Author/Creator
- Ada, Louise
- Author/Creator
- Dean, Catherine M
- Description
- Question: What is the free-living physical activity of community-dwelling people with stroke compared with that of agematched healthy controls? Design: A cross-sectional observational study. Participants: 42 people with stroke and 21 agematched healthy controls aged 52 to 87 years living in Sydney, Australia. Outcome measures: Free-living physical activity was measured using the Intelligent Device for Energy Expenditure and Activity (IDEEA) and reported as duration (time on feet in min) and frequency (activity counts). Results: People with stroke spent 79 (95% CI 20 to 138) fewer min on their feet and performed 5308 (95% CI 3171 to 7445) fewer activity counts than healthy controls. The observation period of the free-living physical activity of stroke survivors was significantly less than that of the healthy controls. Data adjusted to a fixed observation period (12 hr) showed no relative difference in time on feet between the groups (mean difference 36 min, 95% CI –27 to 99) but that people after stroke still had relatively fewer activity counts than healthy controls (mean difference 4062 counts, 95% CI 1787 to 6337). Conclusions: The reduction in physical activity after stroke is not primarily because of a decrease in the time spent being active but rather a decrease in frequency of activity during that time. Future research into physical activity after stroke needs to consider energy expenditure because stroke survivors exhibit a reduced frequency of physical activity due to the nature of their impairments.
- Description
- 5 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- Motor activity
- Subject Keyword
- Ambulatory monitoring
- Subject Keyword
- stroke
- Subject Keyword
- Aged
- Subject Keyword
- Time
- Subject Keyword
- Physiotherapy
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Faculty of Human Sciences
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.14/142860
- Identifier
- ISSN:1836-9553
- Identifier
- mq_res-20110914-094131
- Language
- eng
- Rights
- Copyright the Publisher [2011]. Version archived for private and non-commercial use with the permission of the author/s and according to publisher conditions. For further rights please contact the publisher.
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