People experience a huge loss of self-confidence over [a hip fracture] that can start a spiral of inactivity where people become very fearful of moving, Latham said. After six months, the intervention group had significant improvement in functional mobility and balance, over the control group. Three months after the study ended, researchers followed up with participants and the intervention group continued to have better functionality. Researchers hope their findings will change the p90X3 workouts way health care professionals looks at home exercise and rehabilitation programs. The average age [of our participant] was 78 or 79; many of them have more than a decade of life or more left.
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Exercise may slow diseases that cause blindness
The bright lights http://www.sbwire.com/press-releases/p90x3-reviews/sbwire-455028.htm “caused 75% loss of both retinal function and photoreceptor numbers,” note the researchers. “However,” they write, “exercised mice exposed to bright light had 2 times greater retinal function and photoreceptor nuclei than inactive mice exposed to bright light.” Plus, they found the exercised mice had 20% higher levels of BDNF protein than the non-exercised mice. Exercise protects the retina, probably by raising levels of BDNF To test whether it was BDNF that was mediating the effect of exercise, the researchers injected the mice with a drug that blocked the protein. They found it reduced retinal function and photoreceptor counts in the exercised mice to “inactive levels.” The researchers conclude their findings “suggest that aerobic exercise is neuroprotective for retinal degeneration and that this effect is mediated by BDNF signaling.” Dr.
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