Physical activity, exercise, and chronic diseases: A brief review
December 2019
Chronic diseases are the leading cause of death worldwide with increasing prevalence in all age groups, genders, and ethnicities. Most chronic disease deaths occur in middle-to low-income countries...
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Chrono-exercise: Time-of-day-dependent physiological responses to exercise
March 2023
Exercise is an effective strategy to prevent and improve obesity and related metabolic diseases. Exercise increases the metabolic demand in the body. Although many of the metabolic health benefits of...
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The COVID-19 pandemic and physical activity
June 2020
The SARS-CoV-2-caused COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a devastating threat to human society in terms of health, economy, and lifestyle. Although the virus usually first invades and infects the lung...
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Inflammation, physical activity, and chronic disease: An evolutionary perspective
March 2020
Low-grade inflammation is emerging as a common feature of contemporary metabolic, psychiatric, and neurodegenerative diseases. Both physical inactivity and abdominal adiposity are associated with persistent...
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Skeletal muscle mechanisms contributing to improved glycemic control following intense interval exercise and training
March 2023
High-intensity and sprint interval training (HIIT and SIT, respectively) enhance insulin sensitivity and glycemic control in both healthy adults and those with cardiometabolic diseases. The beneficial...
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Sport and physical exercise in sustainable mental health care of common mental disorders: Lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic
Available online 2 February 2023
The large-scale disruptions to physical activity during the coronavirus pandemic have been found to be a leading predictor of common mental disorders. In addition, regular physical exercise has been...
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High intensity interval training and molecular adaptive response of skeletal muscle
December 2019
Increased cardiovascular fitness, V˙O2max, is associated with enhanced endurance capacity and a decreased rate of mortality. High intensity interval training (HIIT) is one of the best methods to increase...
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Low back pain and golf: A review of biomechanical risk factors
March 2020
Golf is an international sport played by a variety of age groups and fitness levels, and although golf has a low to moderate aerobic intensity level, injuries are common among professional and amateur...
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Prevalence of Achilles tendinopathy in physical exercise: A systematic review and meta-analysis
September 2022
This comprehensive systematic review and meta-analysis assessed the prevalence of Achilles tendinopathy (AT) in physical exercise (PE). Specifically, we estimate the overall risk of AT in physical exercise...
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Effects of combined physical and cognitive training on executive function of adolescent shooting athletes: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy study
Available online 22 February 2023
Individual executive function improvement through physical and cognitive training is a research hotspot in physical education and cognitive science. However, few studies have evaluated whether combined...
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Combined extracorporeal shockwave therapy and exercise for the treatment of tendinopathy: A narrative review
March 2022
Tendinopathy is a chronic degenerative musculoskeletal disorder that is common in both athletes and the general population. Exercise and extracorporeal shockwave therapy (ESWT) is among the most common...
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Exercise is mitochondrial medicine for muscle
December 2019
Mitochondria are vital organelles that provide energy for muscle function. When these organelles become dysfunctional, they produce less energy as well as excessive levels of reactive oxygen species...
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The role of glycogen phosphorylase in glycogen biogenesis in skeletal muscle after exercise
March 2023
Initially it was believed that phosphorylase was responsible for both glycogen breakdown and synthesis in the living cell. The discovery of glycogen synthase and McArdle's disease (lack of phosphorylase...
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Benefits and barriers to physical activity among African women: A systematic review
March 2023
Black women have always been likened to being a less physically active group compared to women of other races/ethnicity, with reports of a high prevalence of obesity and other cardiometabolic diseases...
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Going nuclear: Molecular adaptations to exercise mediated by myonuclei
March 2023
Muscle fibers are multinucleated, and muscle fiber nuclei (myonuclei) are believed to be post-mitotic and are typically situated near the periphery of the myofiber. Due to the unique organization of...
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Application of traditional Chinese therapy in sports medicine
March 2021
Chinese herbs have been used as dietary supplements to improve exercise performance. However, evidence-based studies for the use of Chinese herbs in sports remain scarce. Traditional Chinese therapy...
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Effects of high-/low-temperature and high-altitude hypoxic environments on gut microbiota of sports people: A retrospective analysis
Available online 17 March 2023
As an invisible “endocrine organ”, gut microbiota is widely involved in the regulation of nervous system, endocrine system, circulatory system, and digestive system. It is also closely related to host...
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Vibration-Damping technology in tennis racquets: Effects on vibration transfer to the arm, muscle fatigue and tennis performance
December 2019
High vibration transfer from a tennis racquet to the player may cause discomfort, and is hypothesized to influence performance and the onset of muscle fatigue. This study examined a racquet with a novel...
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Effect of electromyostimulation and plyometrics training on sports-specific parameters in badminton players
December 2022
Badminton is one of the world's most popular racquet sports, demanding motor skills such as agility and vertical jump mainly for striking a shuttlecock. This study compared the effects of four weeks...
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The skeletal muscle fiber periphery: A nexus of mTOR-related anabolism
March 2023
Skeletal muscle anabolism is driven by numerous stimuli such as growth factors, nutrients (i.e., amino acids, glucose), and mechanical stress. These stimuli are integrated by the mechanistic target...
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Dual-task training to improve cognitive impairment and walking function in Parkinson's disease patients: A brief review
December 2021
In daily functional activities, the body needs the ability to perform two or more tasks at the same time (such as talking while walking). However, the gait disorder of patients with Parkinson's disease...
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Match and training injury incidence in rugby league: A systematic review, pooled analysis, and update on published studies
June 2022
In studies reporting rugby league injuries, match injuries varied depending upon participation level. To review and update pooled data estimates for rugby league injury epidemiology and add information...
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Assessment of muscle strength in para-athletes: A systematic review of observational studies
December 2022
Accurate and reliable evaluation of muscle strength in para-athletes is essential for monitoring the effectiveness of strength training and/or rehabilitation programmes, and sport classification. Our...
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Physical exercise and COVID-19 pandemic in PubMed: Two months of dynamics and one year of original scientific production
June 2021
Our aim was to conduct a narrative review about physical exercise and Corona Virus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). A literature search was completed crossing the keywords “COVID-19” and “physical exercise”,...
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