Fear of pain and the frequency with which healthy individuals engage in physical activity

2016 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-312 ◽  
Author(s):  
Julie K. Cremeans-Smith
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Fear Of Pain

Stroke survivors with the same levels of exercise as healthy individuals have lower levels of physical activity

2022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ananda Jacqueline Ferreira ◽  
Larissa Tavares Aguiar ◽  
Júlia Caetano Martins ◽  
Christina Danielli Coelho de Morais Faria
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Stroke Survivors ◽  
Healthy Individuals

Toward a pragmatic migraine model for drug testing: 1. Cilostazol in healthy volunteers

Cephalalgia ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 172-178 ◽  
Author(s):  
Emma Katrine Hansen ◽  
Song Guo ◽  
Messoud Ashina ◽  
Jes Olesen
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Healthy Volunteers ◽  
Migraine Headache ◽  
Drug Testing ◽  
Rescue Medication ◽  
No Reduction ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Double Blind ◽  
Headache Intensity ◽  
Accompanying Symptoms

Background A model for the testing of novel antimigraine drugs should ideally use healthy volunteers for ease of recruiting. Cilostazol provokes headache in healthy volunteers with some migraine features such as pulsating pain quality and aggravation by physical activity. Therefore, this headache might respond to sumatriptan, a requirement for validation. The hypothesis of the present study was that sumatriptan but not placebo is effective in cilostazol-induced headache in healthy individuals. Methods In a double-blind, randomized, cross-over design, 30 healthy volunteers of both sexes received cilostazol 200 mg on two separate days, each day followed by oral self-administered placebo or sumatriptan 50 mg. Headache response and accompanying symptoms were registered in a questionnaire by the participants themselves. Results Cilostazol induced a reproducible headache in 90% of the participants. The headache had several migraine-like features in most individuals. Median peak headache score was 2 on the sumatriptan day and 3 on the placebo day ( p = 0.17). There was no reduction in headache intensity two hours after sumatriptan ( p = 0.97) and difference in AUC 0 to four hours between two experimental days was not significant ( p = 0.18). On the placebo day eight participants took rescue medication compared to 3 on the sumatriptan day ( p = 0.13). Conclusion Despite similarities with migraine headache, cilostazol-induced headache in healthy volunteers does not respond to sumatriptan.

scholarly journals Reference for the six-minute peg board and ring test. A cross sectional study

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manjiri Suhas Kulkarni ◽  
Gopala Krishna Alaparthi ◽  
Shyam Krishnan ◽  
Anand Ramakrishna ◽  
Vishak Acharya
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Grip Strength ◽  
Respiratory Muscles ◽  
Reference Value ◽  
Ring Test ◽  
Chronic Obstructive ◽  
Elbow Flexors ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Exercise Tests ◽  
Cross Sectional

Introduction: In our daily life, arm activities, whether supported or unsupported play a major role. Both simple and omplex activities require the muscles, namely trapezius, pectoralis minor, scalene, and intercostals, to participate in arm positioning. These muscles also enact as the accessory respiratory muscles. Therefore, arm elevation increases the load on these muscles and they fail to perform dual activities, resulting in arm fatigue and a feeling of dyspnoea in healthy individuals as well as in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients. Various upper limb exercise tests were designed to measure this impairment, one of them being the six-minute peg board and ring test. The aim of the study is to derive a reference value for the six-minute peg board and ring test among healthy Indian population (Mangalore) from the age of 20-70 years of either gender. Also, to find a correlation among the number of rings and body mass index, arm length, arm and forearm circumference, the strength of shoulder and elbow flexors-extensors, grip strength of both sides and level of physical activity.Methods: Participants performed two tests, thirty minutes apart. They were asked to load as many rings as possible in 6 minutes. Arm length, arm and forearm circumference were measured with a measuring tape. Shoulder and elbow flexors-extensors were assessed using a handheld push-pull dynamometer. Grip strength was measured with the Jamar hand-held dynamometer. Level of physical activity was assessed using International Physical Activity Questionnaire long form.Results: The samples consisted of 450 healthy individuals between the age of 20-70 years. Reference values for each age group for both genders were reported. We found that age was correlated with the six-minute peg board and ring test score (p<0.05). We also found a correlation between the strength variables and the test results (p=0.001). However, no correlation was found between the arm length, arm and forearm circumference and the level of physical activity with the number of rings.Conclusion: In this study, we derived a reference value for the six-minute peg board and ring test. There was a correlation amongn age, strength variables and the number of rings.

scholarly journals INTERRELATION BETWEEN THE CHANGES IN QUALITY OF LIFE AND ARTERIAL STIFFNESS IN PATIENTS WITH DIABETES MELLITUS TYPE 2 AND CONCOMITANT OBESITY

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 71-75
Author(s):  
I.M. Fushtey ◽  
Ye.A. Solovyuk ◽  
A.O. Solovyuk
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Diabetes Mellitus ◽  
Emotional State ◽  
Eating Behaviour ◽  
Overweight And Obesity ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Patients With Diabetes

The purpose of this work was to study the general characteristics of quality of life (QoL), the effect of overweight on QoL, the nature of eating behaviour in patients with diabetes mellitus (DM) type 2 and   concomitant overweight (OW) and obesity, as well as to establish the correlation with indicators of functional state of the arterial vessels. 64 people (34 women and 30 men) with DM and concomitant  overweight and obesity (average age 56.3 ± 10.23 years) formed the 1 group, 34 people (19 women and 15 men), whose average age was 55.6 ± 11.92 years constituted the 2 group, and  28 healthy individuals formed the control group. SF-36v2 questionnaires were used to evaluate QoL. The effect of overweight on QoL was analyzed according to the IWQOL-Lite questionnaire data, the patterns of eating behaviour were determined by the COEQ4 for 7 days using FPRS questionnaire. The functional state of the arterial vessels was assessed by estimating the pulse wave velocity using the automated rheographic complex ReoCom (KhAI Medika (Ukraine)). The patients with DM and concomitant overweight and obesity were found to experience some changes in QoL according to the SF-36v2 questionnaire. The changes were primarily characterized by a decrease in physical activity, as well as in social and emotional status. These changes differed not only from the QoL assessment by healthy individuals, but also from those of patients with DM and normal body weight. The nature of eating behaviour in overweight or obese patients with DM was characterized by an increased hunger in parallel with a worsened emotional state and an increased desire to eat certain types of foods that can contribute to weight gain. Structural changes in arterial vessels that typically are indicative of arterial stiffness correlate with indicators of emotional state and physical activity in patients with DM and comorbid overweight and obesity.

Physical activity and subjective well-being in healthy individuals: a meta-analytic review

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Susanne Buecker ◽  
Thomas Simacek ◽  
Britta Ingwersen ◽  
Sophia Terwiel ◽  
Bianca A. Simonsmeier
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Subjective Well Being ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Analytic Review

What are the similarities and differences between healthy people with and without pain?

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-47
Author(s):  
Jennifer N. Baldwin ◽  
Marnee J. McKay ◽  
Joshua Burns ◽  
Claire E. Hiller ◽  
Elizabeth J. Nightingale ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Physical Activity ◽  
Risk Factors ◽  
Chronic Pain ◽  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Self Efficacy ◽  
Effect Sizes ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Sit To Stand ◽  
Clinically Significant

Abstract Background and aims: Knowledge of pain characteristics among the healthy population or among people with minimal pain-related disability could hold important insights to inform clinical practice and research. This study investigated pain prevalence among healthy individuals and compared psychosocial and physical characteristics between adults with and without pain. Methods: Data were from 1,000 self-reported healthy participants aged 3–101 years (1,000 Norms Project). Single-item questions assessed recent bodily pain (“none” to “very severe”) and chronic pain (pain every day for 3 months in the previous 6 months). Assessment of Quality of Life (AQoL) instrument, New Generalised Self-Efficacy Scale, International Physical Activity Questionnaire, 6-min walk test, 30-s chair stand and timed up-and-down stairs tests were compared between adults with and without pain. Results: Seventy-two percent of adults and 49% of children had experienced recent pain, although most rated their pain as mild (80% and 87%, respectively). Adults with recent pain were more likely to be overweight/obese and report sleep difficulties, and had lower self-efficacy, AQoL mental super dimension scores and sit-to-stand performance, compared to adults with no pain (p<0.05). Effect sizes were modest (Cohen’s d=0.16–0.39), therefore unlikely clinically significant. Chronic pain was reported by 15% of adults and 3% of children. Adults with chronic pain were older, more likely to be overweight/obese, and had lower AQoL mental super dimension scores, 6-min walk, sit-to-stand and stair-climbing performance (p<0.05). Again, effect sizes were modest (Cohen’s d=0.25–0.40). Conclusions: Mild pain is common among healthy individuals. Adults who consider themselves healthy but experience pain (recent/chronic) display slightly lower mental health and physical performance, although these differences are unlikely clinically significant. Implications: These findings emphasise the importance of assessing pain-related disability in addition to prevalence when considering the disease burden of pain. Early assessment of broader health and lifestyle risk factors in clinical practice is emphasised. Avenues for future research include examination of whether lower mental health and physical performance represent risk factors for future pain and whether physical activity levels, sleep and self-efficacy are protective against chronic pain-related disability.

scholarly journals Effect of increased physical activity on fructose-induced glycemic response in healthy individuals

2014 ◽  
Vol 68 (9) ◽  
pp. 1048-1054 ◽  
Author(s):  
A J Bidwell ◽  
T J Fairchild ◽  
L Wang ◽  
S Keslacy ◽  
J A Kanaley
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Glycemic Response ◽  
Healthy Individuals

The Association between Physical Activity and Depression in Older Depressed Adults

1999 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
pp. 55-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kathleen A. Moore ◽  
Michael A. Babyak ◽  
Carrie E. Wood ◽  
Melissa A. Napolitano ◽  
Parinda Khatri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Leisure Time ◽  
Healthy Individuals ◽  
Major Depressive ◽  
Time Activity ◽  
Clinical Criteria ◽  
Symptoms Of Depression ◽  
Treatment And Prevention ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Activity Questionnaire

Previous studies of younger, healthy individuals have demonstrated an inverse relationship between physical activity and depression. The present study addressed the relation between self-reported physical activity and symptoms of depression in 146 men and women aged 50 years and older with major depressive disorder (MDD). Patients who met clinical criteria for MDD completed the Beck Depression Inventory (BDI) and the Minnesota Leisure-Time Activity Questionnaire (MQ). Multiple regression analysis indicated that lower levels of physical activity were associated with more severe depressive symptoms (p = .04), after adjusting for age and gender. The implications of these findings for the treatment and prevention of depression are discussed.

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