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- Title
Cerebrovascular assessments to help understand brain-related changes associated with aerobic exercise after stroke.
- Authors
Atwi, Sarah; Sweeny, Michelle; Cohen, Ellen; Robertson, Andrew D.; Marzolini, Susan; Swardfager, Walter; Swartz, Richard H.; Oh, Paul I.; MacIntosh, Bradley J.
- Abstract
Evidence suggests exercise is "good medicine" after stroke, yet consensus is lacking on the time to initiate, type, exertion level, and duration per session. It remains a challenge to identify outcome measures for stroke−exercise trials that are sufficiently sensitive to intervention parameters. Cerebrovascular assessments, namely cerebral blood flow and intracranial pulsatility, are herein discussed as examples of quantitative brain-specific measures that may be useful to monitor exercise-related brain changes and help to guide stroke rehabilitation interventions. Novelty: Cerebral blood flow and arterial stiffness are potential vascular targets for stroke exercise trials.
- Subjects
BRAIN; AEROBIC exercises; STROKE; CEREBRAL circulation; ARTERIAL diseases
- Publication
Applied Physiology, Nutrition & Metabolism, 2021, Vol 46, Issue 4, p412
- ISSN
1715-5312
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1139/apnm-2020-0228