Background: Nineteen million adults worldwide are in need of palliative care. Of those who have access to it, 80% fail to receive an efficient management of symptoms. Objectives: To assess the effectiveness and safety of mindfulness meditation for palliative care patients. Methods: We searc...

Rationale: The prevalence of obesity among individuals with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is increasing at a higher rate than in those without COPD. The combination of obesity and COPD may contribute to further physical inactivity, dyspnea, and functional impairments. This systemat...

Background: Physical activity (PA) is a major public health issue in the developed world and people who have rheumatoid arthritis (RA) are no exception. It has been found that the total amount of time spent on PA is lower in people who have RA. Health care practitioners are encouraged to promote ...

The aim of this systematic review is to assess the effects of exercise on telomeres length. We searched the following databases: MEDLINE, EMBASE, Cochrane Central Register of Controlled Trials (CENTRAL, The Cochrane Library), Scopus, LILACS, SPORTDiscus and Web of Science from inception to August...

Objectives This study aims to evaluate the effects of multicomponent exercise on the muscle strength, muscle endurance and balance of frail older adults living in the community and provide the latest evidence from published randomised controlled trials (RCTs). Background The number of frail older...

Excessive foot pronation is a risk factor of running injuries and motion control footwear is designed to control foot pronation. With the movement transfer between foot pronation and tibial rotation, motion control footwear may not only be confined to controlling foot pronation. In view of the co...

Background: Physical exercise is a systematic sequence of movements executed with a predefined purpose. This muscular activity impacts not only on circulatory adaptations, but also neuronal integration with the potential to influence cognition. The aim of this review was to determine whether the ...

Aim: Physical activity is one of the cornerstones in the prevention and management of diabetes mellitus, but the effects of different training forms on metabolic control still remain unclear. The aims of this review are to summarize the recommendations of 5 selected diabetes associations and to s...

Several studies have focused on the difference in the alterations of health outcomes between usual care (UC) and home-based physical activity for survivors of early-stage breast cancer (ESBC), but the results are inconclusive. We performed the current research to comprehensively explore the diffe...

The aim of this study was to assess the effectiveness of a 12-week in-season low-to-moderate load high-velocity resistance training (HVRT) in addition to soccer training as compared with soccer training only on proxies of athletic performance in prepubertal soccer players. Twenty-four male soccer...