Prehabilitation Shows Promise for Cancer Patients Facing Bladder Surgery
A narrative review indicates that prehabilitation may enhance physical fitness and recovery in cancer patients, particularly those undergoing bladder cancer ...
Tag: physical fitness
Sprint Time Correlates with Change-of-Direction Performance in Children
An exploratory cross-sectional study identifies field-based fitness correlates of 505 change-of-direction test times in children aged 9 to 10 years.
Structured Home Exercise Delivers Equal Fitness Gains Across Diverse Motivation Profiles
In a 26-week home exercise trial involving older adults, researchers found that baseline psychological differences in motivation and self-efficacy did ...
Fitness Falls but Mood Measures Hold Steady Across Older Women’s Seventies
A cross-sectional study of 76 women aged 60–79 found physical fitness declined significantly between decades while psychometric test scores did ...
Physical Fitness Linked to Core Emergency Competencies in Chinese Emergency Nurses
A cross-sectional study of 146 Chinese emergency nurses found nearly half had poor physical fitness, with self-reported fitness, BMI and ...
Muscle Strength Linked to Working Memory and Shifting in Chinese Teens
A cross-sectional study of 10,145 Chinese adolescents aged 13 to 18 links greater muscle strength to faster working-memory and shifting ...
Machine learning offers limited screening for poor fitness in Tibet
A cross-sectional study of 5,750 adults at three Tibetan altitudes found moderate discrimination and substantial sensitivity-specificity trade-offs in machine-learning screening ...
Machine learning predicts next-year fitness assessment failure in university students
A longitudinal study at one Chinese university found that annual fitness measurements helped predict subsequent-year assessment failure, although performance varied ...
Community-based identification of poor sleep quality in middle-aged and older adults with abdominal obesity using psychological and physical fitness indicators
A seven-predictor model combining mood symptoms and physical-fitness tests showed moderate internal performance for identifying current poor sleep quality in ...
Yoga Builds Strength and Flexibility, but Aerobic Exercise Wins on Balance, Sri Lankan Study Finds
A cross-sectional study of 126 Sri Lankan adults found yoga practitioners had greater lower limb strength and flexibility while aerobic ...
Physical Fitness Linked to Lower Depression Risk in Chinese Teens, Study of 10,000 Finds
A study of 10,327 Chinese adolescents aged 12 to 17 found that those with the lowest health-related physical fitness were ...
Why Big Shoulders Alone Don’t Make Fast Teen Swimmers: Fitness Holds the Key
A PLS-PM analysis of 47 adolescent swimmers shows upper-body dimensions boost sprint freestyle performance only indirectly, by building the dry-land ...
Supervised Home Exercise Delivered Remently Shows Promise for Cancer Survivors with Lymphoedema
A ten-week fully remote, personalised exercise programme proved feasible and safe for cancer survivors with lymphoedema, with high adherence and ...
How High Can a Child Jump? Spanish Study Sets New Benchmarks for Youth Fitness
A study of 3,525 sport-participating Spanish children and adolescents establishes new age- and sex-specific normative reference values for the vertical ...
Staying Fit Could Help Your Body Fight Dehydration, New Study Finds
In a groundbreaking new study emerging from the University of California, Riverside, researchers have unveiled compelling evidence suggesting that physical ...
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