Deans' stroke musings: A Group-Based Walking Study to Enhance Physical Activity Among Older Adults: The Role of Social Engagement

Changing stroke rehab and research worldwide now.Time is Brain! trillions and trillions of neurons that DIE each day because there are NO effective hyperacute therapies besides tPA(only 12% effective). I have 523 posts on hyperacute therapy, enough for researchers to spend decades proving them out. These are my personal ideas and blog on stroke rehabilitation and stroke research. Do not attempt any of these without checking with your medical provider. Unless you join me in agitating, when you need these therapies they won't be there.

What this blog is for:

My blog is not to help survivors recover, it is to have the 10 million yearly stroke survivors light fires underneath their doctors, stroke hospitals and stroke researchers to get stroke solved. 100% recovery. The stroke medical world is completely failing at that goal, they don't even have it as a goal. Shortly after getting out of the hospital and getting NO information on the process or protocols of stroke rehabilitation and recovery I started searching on the internet and found that no other survivor received useful information. This is an attempt to cover all stroke rehabilitation information that should be readily available to survivors so they can talk with informed knowledge to their medical staff. It lays out what needs to be done to get stroke survivors closer to 100% recovery. It's quite disgusting that this information is not available from every stroke association and doctors group.

Wednesday, October 14, 2020

A Group-Based Walking Study to Enhance Physical Activity Among Older Adults: The Role of Social Engagement

The resposibility is your doctors to get you walking well enough to socialize while walking. YOUR DOCTOR'S RESPONSIBILITY!

A Group-Based Walking Study to Enhance Physical Activity Among Older Adults: The Role of Social Engagement

Yujun Liu

, Margie E. Lachman

First Published October 6, 2020 Research Article

Abstract

Objectives.

The aim of this study was to explore social engagement and social comparisons as mechanisms to increase physical activity among older adults.

Methods.

Participants (N = 60, mean age = 65.7) were randomly assigned to one of two conditions. Participants in the treatment condition used the application to track their daily walking steps and interact via text messages with their group members for 4 weeks. Participants in the control group used the application only to track their own walking steps. Outcome variables included mean weekly steps, exercise self-efficacy, and social engagement.

Results.

The results revealed that participants in the experimental condition significantly increased their mean weekly steps and social engagement from the pretest to the posttest whereas the control group did not. These effects were maintained at the 1-month follow up.