Stroke Research and Treatment

Stroke: Physical Fitness, Exercise, and Fatigue


Publishing date
15 Nov 2011
Status
Published
Submission deadline
15 May 2011

1School of Clinical Sciences and Community Health, Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh, The University of Edinburgh, Little France Crescent, Edinburgh, UK

2National Stroke Research Institute and La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia

3Research Institute MOVE, VU University Medical Center, De Boelelaan, Amsterdam, The Netherlands


Stroke: Physical Fitness, Exercise, and Fatigue

Description

Stroke is a major cause of disability in the community. After stroke, physical fitness is substantially reduced, and low fitness contributes to functional limitations. There is an increasing body of evidence that physical fitness training improves physical function after stroke. Fitness training also has major potential to reduce other poststroke problems such as fatigue, low mood, and recurrent vascular events. Physical fitness training is increasingly being incorporated into the rehabilitation and long-term management of people after stroke.

We invite authors to submit papers on the topic of physical activity and physical fitness and stroke. Potential topics include, but are not limited to:

  • The biology of fitness after stroke
  • What do animal models of exercise after stroke tell us?
  • Association between physical activity, fitness, and function
  • The influence of increased physical activity and fitness training on outcome after stroke, including risk of recurrent stroke
  • Fatigue after stroke: aetiology and associations with fitness
  • Barriers and motivators to exercise after stroke
  • Putting research evidence into practice: models of providing exercise after stroke
  • How to measure fatigue in physical fitness programs?

Before submission authors should carefully read over the journal's Author Guidelines, which are located at http://www.hindawi.com/journals/srt/guidelines/. Prospective authors should submit an electronic copy of their complete manuscript through the journal Manuscript Tracking System at http://mts.hindawi.com/ according to the following timetable:


Articles

  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 987637
  • - Clinical Study

Cardiopulmonary Response to Exercise Testing in People with Chronic Stroke: A Retrospective Study

Sandra A. Billinger | Jordan M. Taylor | Barbara M. Quaney
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 818513
  • - Research Article

Physical Activity, Ambulation, and Motor Impairment Late after Stroke

Anna Danielsson | Carin Willén | Katharina Stibrant Sunnerhagen
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 195249
  • - Review Article

The Importance of Psychological and Social Factors in Influencing the Uptake and Maintenance of Physical Activity after Stroke: A Structured Review of the Empirical Literature

Jacqui Morris | Tracey Oliver | ... | Steve MacGillivray
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 614925
  • - Clinical Study

Previous Leisure-Time Physical Activity Dose Dependently Decreases Ischemic Stroke Severity

Dominique Deplanque | Isabelle Masse | ... | Régis Bordet
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 959120
  • - Review Article

Reduced Cardiorespiratory Fitness after Stroke: Biological Consequences and Exercise-Induced Adaptations

Sandra A. Billinger | Eileen Coughenour | ... | Frederick M. Ivey
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 890946
  • - Research Article

Exercise Preferences Are Different after Stroke

Geraldine Banks | Julie Bernhardt | ... | Toby B. Cumming
  • Special Issue
  • - Volume 2012
  • - Article ID 863031
  • - Research Article

Fatigue after Stroke: The Patient's Perspective

Victoria Louise Barbour | Gillian Elizabeth Mead
Stroke Research and Treatment
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