Quite the puff piece here.
http://jamaica-gleaner.com/gleaner/20130508/health/health1.html
Taking a stroll around your community could greatly increase
your chances of recovering from a stroke, according to a breakthrough
study from researchers at the University of the West Indies (UWI).
The
five-year study, led by Dr Carron Gordon, along with Professors
Rainford Wilks and Affette McCaw-Binns, published last month under the
title Community Based Walking After Stroke, has caused specialists to now rethink their approach in the treatment of stroke survivors.
"Exercise
intervention had been used before, using a number of means, but no one
had looked at walking as a single intervention, simple outdoor walking,
which is a common, accessible modality. In our context, a lot of persons
would not have access to the equipment used as part of the other
studies, but walking is so accessible and can be done at the community
level. It's familiar, inexpensive and something people could very easily
get into," noted Gordon, a physiotherapist for more than 30 years with a
PhD in public health.
The
study was designed to determine the effect of 30 minutes of aerobic
walking, three times per week for three months in patients who has
suffered a stroke, examining the outcomes in health-related quality of
life, functional status, endurance, strength and fitness.
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