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Frailty is a common and clinically significant grouping of symptoms that occurs in aging and older adults. These symptoms can include decreased physical abilities such as walking, excessive fatigue, and weight and muscle loss leading to declined physical status.
MCR, characterized by a slower walking speed and some memory issues, was found to be more likely in a cohort of people over 65 who met the criteria of “poor sleepers,” with excessive daytime ...
Central fatigue is a reduction in the neural drive or nerve-based motor command to working muscles that results in a decline in the force output. [3] [4] [5] It has been suggested that the reduced neural drive during exercise may be a protective mechanism to prevent organ failure if the work was continued at the same intensity.
Energy envelope theory is a form of pacing that states patients should aim to stay within their "envelope" of available energy, and by avoiding exceeding their energy levels the worsening of symptoms after mental and physical exertion (post-exertional malaise) should reduce, allowing for "modest" gains in functioning as a result. [13]
Prolonged fatigue is fatigue that persists for more than a month, and chronic fatigue is fatigue that lasts at least six consecutive months, which may be caused by a physical or psychological illness, or may be idiopathic (no known cause). [1] Chronic fatigue with a known cause is twice as common as idiopathic chronic fatigue. [6]
Woman exercising outdoors. Marathon season reaches its peak mid-fall. If you watched from your couch this year, wondering how anyone could ever run for that long, experts want you to know you don ...
Varicose veins are veins that have become enlarged and twisted, especially within the legs, ankles and feet of an affected individual. [4] When standing, gravity pulls the blood downwards to the lower part of the body. Body mechanisms, such as vasoconstriction and valves of the veins, assist in pumping blood upwards. [5]
Christie Sides, the Fever coach this past season, recalls the throng of people gathered to watch Clark walk to the bus before her regular-season debut against the Connecticut Sun. “It was people ...