Effects of Ving Tsun Chinese martial art training on upper extremity muscle strength and eye-hand coordination in community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults: A pilot study

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Motor Evoked Potentials (MEPs) Of The Tongue In Healthy Adults And Dysphagic Individuals

Poster session D: Physiology and neurophysiolog

Short Term Effects Of 5hz Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rtms) On Swallowing And Speech Functions In Post-stroke Individuals

Poster session H: Dysphagia in stroke and brain damag

Effects of Ving Tsun Chinese martial art training on upper limb muscle strength and eye-hand coordination in older adults

Conference Theme: Science and Aging: An Era of Discover

Comparison between smartphone pedometer applications and traditional pedometers for improving physical activity and body mass index in community-dwelling older adults

[Purpose] The effectiveness of a smartphone pedometer application was compared with that of a traditional pedometer for improving the physical activity and weight status of community-dwelling older adults. [Subjects and Methods] This study had a nonequivalent pretest-posttest control group design. Ninety-seven older adults (mean age ± SD, 60.1 ± 5.5 years) joined the smartphone pedometer group and underwent a 2-week walking intervention based on a smartphone pedometer application. Fifty-four older adults (mean age ± SD, 65.3 ± 8.7 years) joined the traditional pedometer group and underwent a 2-week walking intervention based on a traditional pedometer. The participants’ physical activity was evaluated using the International Physical Activity Questionnaire– Short Form, and their weight status was quantified by calculating the body mass index. The daily pedometer count was also documented. [Results] No significant time, group, or time-by-group interaction effects were found for any of the outcome variables. However, trends of improvement in physical activity and body mass index were seen only in the smartphone pedometer group. [Conclusion] A smartphone pedometer application might be more favorable than a traditional pedometer in improving physical activity and body mass index in community-dwelling older adults. However, further experimental studies are necessary to confirm the results.Department of Rehabilitation Science

Effects of Ving Tsun Chinese martial art training on upper extremity muscle strength and eye-hand coordination in community-dwelling middle-aged and older adults : a pilot study

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Direct and indirect therapy: Neurostimulation for the treatment of dysphagia after stroke

Swallowing problems (dysphagia) are common after brain injury and can affect as many as 50% of patients in the period immediately after stroke. In some cases this can lead to serious morbidity, in particular malnutrition and pulmonary aspiration. Despite this, swallowing therapies remain controversial, with limited evidence base and few objective outcome measures that would provide scientific support for the observed changes. Moreover, swallowing can recover in some patients to a safe level within weeks, introducing stroke as an interesting model for understanding brain recovery and compensation. A better understanding of these adaptive processes, seen during the spontaneous recovery phase, may help in developing therapeutic interventions capable of driving brain changes and encouraging the recovery process and is therefore a key goal for clinical neuroscience research warranting systematic investigation. In this chapter, we will review current knowledge and discuss some of the pioneering work conducted by researchers in the field of human swallowing neuromodulation over the last decade. The chapter will provide insights as to how the cerebral control of swallowing can be studied non-invasively in the human brain using neuroimaging tools and neurostimulation techniques. In addition, it will describe how both using these neurostimulation techniques to manipulate the brain’s natural capacity to re-organise (cortical plasticity) after injury or in response to new stimuli and studying brain capacity to re-organise help in the development of novel therapies for the treatment of dysphagia and other motor disorders in humans