Walking

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • "Not too far to walk": the influence of distance on place of delivery in a western Kenya health demographic surveillance system. 
  • A 1-y walking program and increased dietary calcium in postmenopausal women: effects on bone. 
  • A novel paraplegia model in awake behaving macaques. 
  • A pilot study of partial unweighted treadmill training in mobility-impaired older adults. 
  • A prospective randomized wait list control trial of intravenous iron sucrose in older adults with unexplained anemia and serum ferritin 20-200 ng/mL. 
  • A randomized controlled trial of epoprostenol therapy for severe congestive heart failure: The Flolan International Randomized Survival Trial (FIRST). 
  • A randomized study of alglucosidase alfa in late-onset Pompe's disease. 
  • Adjunctive albuterol enhances the response to enzyme replacement therapy in late-onset Pompe disease. 
  • An apolipoprotein E-mimetic stimulates axonal regeneration and remyelination after peripheral nerve injury. 
  • An official European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society technical standard: field walking tests in chronic respiratory disease. 
  • An official systematic review of the European Respiratory Society/American Thoracic Society: measurement properties of field walking tests in chronic respiratory disease. 
  • Analyzing pain in rheumatoid arthritis patients. Pain coping strategies in patients who have had knee replacement surgery. 
  • Are There Differences in Gait Mechanics in Patients With A Fixed Versus Mobile Bearing Total Ankle Arthroplasty? A Randomized Trial. 
  • Are there negative responders to exercise training among heart failure patients? 
  • Assessing exertional dyspnea in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 
  • Assisted early mobility for hospitalized older veterans: preliminary data from the STRIDE program. 
  • Association between change in daily ambulatory activity and cardiovascular events in people with impaired glucose tolerance (NAVIGATOR trial): a cohort analysis. 
  • Association of knee and ankle osteoarthritis with physical performance. 
  • Association of poor physical function and cognitive dysfunction with high nocturnal blood pressure level in treated elderly hypertensive patients. 
  • Ataluren treatment of patients with nonsense mutation dystrophinopathy. 
  • Back strength predicts walking improvement in obese, older adults with chronic low back pain. 
  • Baseline 6-min walk distance predicts survival in lung transplant candidates. 
  • Bed rest promotes reductions in walking speed, functional parameters, and aerobic fitness in older, healthy adults. 
  • Behavior: Knowing When to Walk Away, Knowing When to Run. 
  • Bilateral differences in gait mechanics following total ankle replacement: a two year longitudinal study. 
  • Bilateral symmetry in lower extremity mechanics during stair ascent and descent following a total hip arthroplasty: a one-year longitudinal study. 
  • Bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion in chimpanzees. 
  • Body composition in ambulatory women with multiple sclerosis. 
  • Body size and lower limb posture during walking in humans. 
  • Can lay-led walking programmes increase physical activity in middle aged adults? A randomised controlled trial. 
  • Can walking patients with heart failure and preserved ejection fraction tell us who should walk also to the catheterization laboratory or just walk home? 
  • Cardiac resynchronization with sequential biventricular pacing for the treatment of moderate-to-severe heart failure. 
  • Change in levels of physical activity after diagnosis of type 2 diabetes: an observational analysis from the NAVIGATOR study. 
  • Changes in gait and posture as factors of dynamic stability during walking in pregnancy. 
  • Chimpanzee locomotor energetics and the origin of human bipedalism. 
  • Chronic refractory dyspnoea--evidence based management. 
  • Clinical tip: footplate attachment for ambulation on a ring external fixator. 
  • Comparative Effectiveness of Medical Therapy, Supervised Exercise, and Revascularization for Patients With Intermittent Claudication: A Network Meta-analysis. 
  • Comparative Effectiveness of Wellness Programs: Impact of Incentives on Healthcare Costs for Obese Enrollees. 
  • Constructal law: pleasure, golden ratio, animal locomotion and the design of pedestrian evacuation: comment on "The emergence of design in pedestrian dynamics: locomotion, self-organization, walking paths and the constructal law" by A. Miguel. 
  • Contemporary trends and predictors of postacute service use and routine discharge home after stroke. 
  • Continuous flow left ventricular assist device improves functional capacity and quality of life of advanced heart failure patients. 
  • Control and function of arm swing in human walking and running. 
  • Counseling for home-based walking and strength exercise in older primary care patients. 
  • Dietary nitrate supplementation enhances exercise performance in peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Direct decompressive surgical resection in the treatment of spinal cord compression caused by metastatic cancer: a randomised trial. 
  • Economic Outcomes of Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation With and Without Ambulation as a Bridge to Lung Transplantation. 
  • Effect of end-stage hip, knee, and ankle osteoarthritis on walking mechanics. 
  • Effect of exercise on biomarkers, fatigue, sleep disturbances, and depressive symptoms in older women with breast cancer receiving hormonal therapy. 
  • Effect of increased weight on ankle mechanics and spatial temporal gait mechanics in healthy controls. 
  • Effect of laterally wedged foot orthoses on rearfoot and hip mechanics in patients with medial knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Effect of phosphodiesterase-5 inhibition on exercise capacity and clinical status in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • Effects of exercise training amount and intensity on peak oxygen consumption in middle-age men and women at risk for cardiovascular disease. 
  • Effects of financial incentives on motivating physical activity among older adults: results from a discrete choice experiment. 
  • Effects of nonlinear aerobic training on erectile dysfunction and cardiovascular function following radical prostatectomy for clinically localized prostate cancer. 
  • Endothelial Progenitor Cell Levels Predict Future Physical Function: An Exploratory Analysis From the VA Enhanced Fitness Study. 
  • Energetics of walking in elderly people: factors related to gait speed. 
  • Energy recovery in individuals with knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Estimating older adults' preferences for walking programs via conjoint analysis. 
  • Evaluation and treatment of patients with lower extremity peripheral artery disease: consensus definitions from Peripheral Academic Research Consortium (PARC). 
  • Exercise behavior, functional capacity, and survival in adults with malignant recurrent glioma. 
  • Exercise, obesity, and asthma in children and adolescents. 
  • Exploring associations between physical activity and perceived and objective measures of the built environment. 
  • Factors associated with 1-year mortality after discharge for acute stroke: what matters? 
  • Fear of movement, quality of life, and self-reported disability in obese patients with chronic lumbar pain. 
  • Free testosterone levels are associated with mobility limitation and physical performance in community-dwelling men: the Framingham Offspring Study. 
  • Functional Status Modifies the Association of Blood Pressure with Death in Elders: Health and Retirement Study. 
  • Functional effects of lymphotoxin on crushed peripheral nerve. 
  • Functional incidental training: a randomized, controlled, crossover trial in Veterans Affairs nursing homes. 
  • Gait kinetics of above- and below-branch quadrupedal locomotion in lemurid primates. 
  • Gender and limb differences in temporal gait parameters and gait variability in ankle osteoarthritis. 
  • Great ape walking kinematics: Implications for hominoid evolution. 
  • Health status and depression remission in patients with chronic heart failure: patient-reported outcomes from the SADHART-CHF trial. 
  • Hip extensor mechanics and the evolution of walking and climbing capabilities in humans, apes, and fossil hominins. 
  • Hip, Knee, and Ankle Osteoarthritis Negatively Affects Mechanical Energy Exchange. 
  • Hunter-gatherer energetics and human obesity. 
  • Impact of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease on Postoperative Complication Rates, Ambulation, and Length of Hospital Stay After Elective Spinal Fusion (≥3 Levels) in Elderly Spine Deformity Patients. 
  • Implementing a home-based exercise prescription for older patients with peripheral arterial disease and intermittent claudication: a quality improvement project. 
  • Improved fitness narrows the symptom-reporting gap between older men and women. 
  • Improvement in the mechanical efficiency of walking: an explanation for the "placebo effect" seen during repeated exercise testing of patients with heart failure. Duke University Clinical Cardiology Studies (DUCCS) Exercise Group. 
  • In Vivo Tibial Cartilage Strains in Regions of Cartilage-to-Cartilage Contact and Cartilage-to-Meniscus Contact in Response to Walking. 
  • In vivo measurement of ACL length and relative strain during walking. 
  • Inactivity, exercise, and visceral fat. STRRIDE: a randomized, controlled study of exercise intensity and amount. 
  • Increased levels of apoptosis in gastrocnemius skeletal muscle in patients with peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Individual progress toward self-selected goals among older adults enrolled in a physical activity counseling intervention. 
  • Individual, social environmental and physical environmental barriers to achieving 10 000 steps per day among older women 
  • Influence of activity monitor location and bout duration on free-living physical activity. 
  • Inhibition of inducible nitric oxide synthase promotes recovery of motor function in rats after sciatic nerve ischemia and reperfusion. 
  • Inpatient Mobility Measures As Useful Predictors of Discharge Destination in Hospitalized Older Adults. 
  • Interlimb symmetry of dynamic knee joint stiffness and co-contraction is maintained in early stage knee osteoarthritis. 
  • Isosorbide Mononitrate in Heart Failure with Preserved Ejection Fraction. 
  • Knee arthrodesis with circular external fixation. 
  • Limited regional cerebellar dysfunction induces focal dystonia in mice. 
  • Locomotor anatomy and biomechanics of the Dmanisi hominins. 
  • Long-Term Training with a Brain-Machine Interface-Based Gait Protocol Induces Partial Neurological Recovery in Paraplegic Patients. 
  • Lower extremity function and subsequent disability: consistency across studies, predictive models, and value of gait speed alone compared with the short physical performance battery. 
  • METs and accelerometry of walking in older adults: standard versus measured energy cost. 
  • Massage therapy for osteoarthritis of the knee: a randomized dose-finding trial. 
  • Measures of arch height and their relationship to pain and dysfunction in people with lower limb impairments. 
  • Measuring the Energy of Ventilation and Circulation during Human Walking using Induced Hypoxia. 
  • Mechanisms for the functional differentiation of the propulsive and braking roles of the forelimbs and hindlimbs during quadrupedal walking in primates and felines. 
  • Menopausal status, moderate-intensity walking, and symptoms in midlife women. 
  • Metabolic syndrome predicts mobility decline in a community-based sample of older adults. 
  • Migration of Intraaortic Balloon Pump Placed Via the Axillary Artery. 
  • Muscle force production during bent-knee, bent-hip walking in humans. 
  • Novel Methods for Reporting of Exercise Dose and Adherence: An Exploratory Analysis. 
  • Ontogenetic changes in foot strike pattern and calcaneal loading during walking in young children. 
  • Outcomes of a home-based walking program for African-American women. 
  • Patterns of quadrupedal locomotion in a vertical clinging and leaping primate (Propithecus coquereli) with implications for understanding the functional demands of primate quadrupedal locomotion. 
  • Pelvic Breadth and Locomotor Kinematics in Human Evolution. 
  • Personalized home-based interval exercise training may improve cardiorespiratory fitness in cancer patients preparing to undergo hematopoietic cell transplantation. 
  • Physical exercise increases involvement of motor networks as a compensatory mechanism during a cognitively challenging task. 
  • Physical fitness predicts functional tasks in individuals with Down syndrome. 
  • Plantar flexion: an effective training for peripheral arterial disease. 
  • Plasma nitrite flux predicts exercise performance in peripheral arterial disease after 3months of exercise training. 
  • Potential Effect of Physical Activity Calorie Equivalent (PACE) Labeling on Adult Fast Food Ordering and Exercise. 
  • Potential effect of physical activity based menu labels on the calorie content of selected fast food meals. 
  • Potential effect of physical activity calorie equivalent labeling on parent fast food decisions. 
  • Predicting the energy cost of terrestrial locomotion: a test of the LiMb model in humans and quadrupeds. 
  • Prognostic significance of functional capacity and exercise behavior in patients with metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. 
  • Proximal femoral focal deficiency: results of rotationplasty and Syme amputation. 
  • Quality of life and functional status in patients surviving 12 months after left ventricular assist device implantation. 
  • Quantifying six-minute walk induced gait deterioration with inertial sensors in multiple sclerosis subjects. 
  • Rationale and design of the Exercise Intensity Trial (EXCITE): A randomized trial comparing the effects of moderate versus moderate to high-intensity aerobic training in women with operable breast cancer. 
  • Real-world walking in multiple sclerosis: Separating capacity from behavior. 
  • Recruitment of African American women to a walking program: eligibility, ineligibility, and attrition during screening. 
  • Relationship Among Koenig Depression Scale and Postoperative Outcomes, Ambulation, and Perception of Pain in Elderly Patients (≥65 Years) Undergoing Elective Spinal Surgery for Adult Scoliosis. 
  • Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation to SMA worsens complex movements in Parkinson's disease. 
  • Resistance exercise, disability, and pain catastrophizing in obese adults with back pain. 
  • Respiratory and cardiovascular responses to walking down a traffic-polluted road compared with walking in a traffic-free area in participants aged 60 years and older with chronic lung or heart disease and age-matched healthy controls: a randomised, crossover study. 
  • Respiratory muscle training (RMT) in late-onset Pompe disease (LOPD): Effects of training and detraining. 
  • Retention of adaptive control over varying intervals: prevention of slip- induced backward balance loss during gait. 
  • Revascularisation plus supervised exercise is superior to supervised exercise alone for the treatment of intermittent claudication. 
  • Safe to walk? Neighborhood safety and physical activity among public housing residents. 
  • Self-Care and Mobility Following Postacute Rehabilitation for Older Adults With Hip Fracture: A Multilevel Analysis. 
  • Sildenafil improves walk distance in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. 
  • Sildenafil preserves exercise capacity in patients with idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and right-sided ventricular dysfunction. 
  • Simultaneous object classification and segmentation with high-order multiple shape models. 
  • Six-minute walk distance predictors, including CT scan measures, in the COPDGene cohort. 
  • Six-minute-walk distance and accelerometry predict outcomes in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease independent of Global Initiative for Chronic Obstructive Lung Disease 2011 Group. 
  • Steroid treatment and the development of scoliosis in males with duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • Strength training, walking, and social activity improve sleep in nursing home and assisted living residents: randomized controlled trial. 
  • Supervised vs unsupervised exercise for intermittent claudication: A systematic review and meta-analysis. 
  • Ten weeks of high-intensity interval walk training is associated with reduced disease activity and improved innate immune function in older adults with rheumatoid arthritis: a pilot study. 
  • The Canadian experience with long-term deflazacort treatment in Duchenne muscular dystrophy. 
  • The Effect of Adductor-Canal-Blockade on Outcome after Medial Unicondylar Knee Arthroplasty: A Preliminary Study. 
  • The Performance and Association Between Patient-reported and Performance-based Measures of Physical Functioning in Research on Individuals with Arthritis. 
  • The e-MSWS-12: improving the multiple sclerosis walking scale using item response theory. 
  • The effect of foot type on in-shoe plantar pressure during walking and running. 
  • The effects of exogenous nitric oxide donor on motor functional recovery of reperfused peripheral nerve. 
  • The effects of written emotional disclosure and coping skills training in rheumatoid arthritis: a randomized clinical trial. 
  • The epidemiology of road traffic injury hotspots in Kigali, Rwanda from police data. 
  • The food industry's solution to the obesity epidemic: take a walk. 
  • The gaits of primates: center of mass mechanics in walking, cantering and galloping ring-tailed lemurs, Lemur catta. 
  • The lower limb and mechanics of walking in Australopithecus sediba. 
  • The metabolic cost of walking in humans, chimpanzees, and early hominins. 
  • The older pedestrian. 
  • The relation between hand morphology and quadrupedalism in primates. 
  • The relationship between leisure, walking, and transportation activity with the natural environment. 
  • The role of smoking and other modifiable lifestyle risk factors in maintaining and restoring lower body mobility in middle-aged and older Americans: results from the HRS and AHEAD. Health and Retirement Study. Asset and Health Dynamics Among the Oldest Old. 
  • The utility of 6-minute walk distance in predicting waitlist mortality for lung transplant candidates. 
  • Toddler's behavior and its impacts on exposure to polybrominated diphenyl ethers. 
  • Total hip arthroplasty surgical approach does not alter postoperative gait mechanics one year after surgery. 
  • Training trials in heart failure: time to exercise restraint? 
  • Understanding the Physiological Significance of Four Inertial Gait Features in Multiple Sclerosis. 
  • Understanding the adaptive value of diagonal-sequence gaits in primates: a comment on Shapiro and Raichlen, 2005. 
  • Use of the 6-min walk distance to identify variations in treatment benefits from implantable cardioverter-defibrillator and amiodarone: results from the SCD-HeFT (Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure Trial). 
  • Using step activity monitoring to characterize ambulatory activity in community-dwelling older adults. 
  • Waddling and toddling: the biomechanical effects of an immature gait. 
  • Walking as a Window to Risk and Resiliency. 
  • Walking in old age and development of metabolic syndrome: the health, aging, and body composition study. 
  • Walking speed predicts health status and hospital costs for frail elderly male veterans. 
  • Weight-bearing physical activity among girls and mothers: relationships to girls' weight status. 
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  • Milano, Carmelo Alessio, Professor of Surgery, Surgery, Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery
  • O'Connor, Christopher Michael, Richard Sean Stack, M.D. / Guidant Foundation Professor of Cardiology, Medicine, Clinical Pharmacology