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High-intensity cycling exercise after a stroke: a single case study

Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre, Oxford, UK

A Bateman

Department of Health Sciences, University of East London, London, UK

D Wade

Rivermead Rehabilitation Centre, Oxford, London, UK

O M Scott

Department of Health Sciences, University of East London, London, UK

Aerobic exercise training has demonstrated positive effects after brain injury. However, therapists express concern regarding the use of effortful exercise in individuals presenting with spasticity or involuntary muscle activity. This study aimed to address this concern and to evaluate whether an intervention of maximal intensity cycling exercise impaired an individual's ability to actively extend his hemiparetic elbow. Using a single case design, it was shown that active elbow extension improved during the period of this investigation, and was not impaired immediately following maximal cycling exercise.

Clinical Rehabilitation, Vol. 14, No. 6, 570-573 (2000)
DOI: 10.1191/0269215500cr363oa


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