Volume 4: Issue 1

Jonathan K. Ehrman,

PhD, ACSM-CEP

¹Division of Cardiovascular Medicine, Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit, MI

Address for correspondence: Jonathan K. Ehrman, PhD, Henry Ford Hospital, Preventive Cardiology, 6525 2nd Ave., Detroit, MI 48202; email: jehrman1@hfhs.org

Cardiac Rehabilitation Staffing: The Clinical Exercise Physiologist

The author denies any conflicts of interest.

POINT: Appropriate Utilization of the Clinical Exercise Physiologist

Recent advances in the importance of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) as a treatment to improve quality of life and reduce morbidity and mortality are exciting. For approximately the initial 30 years of the highly structured, physician-supervised, and ECG-monitored era of CR, the primary

Anabolic Exercise in Haemodialysis Patients: A Randomised Controlled Pilot Study

Kirkman DL, Mullins P, Junglee NA, Kumwenda M, Jibani M, Macdonald JH. J Cachexia Sarcopenia Muscle. 2014;5(3):199–207.

Background: Chronic kidney disease (CKD) causes muscle wasting that increases morbidity and mortality. Resistance exercise has successfully reversed muscle wasting in other cachexic conditions, but its efficacy in CKD remains unclear. This study determined whether resistance exercise, completed during hemodialysis to enhance compliance, could increase muscle volume, strength, and functional capacity among patients with CKD.

Study Overview: In a single-blind study investigators randomized 23 patients with CKD who were on hemodialysis

Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Arterial Health in Adults With Down Syndrome

Brantley K. BallengerPhD, ACSM-CEP,

Stanley P. BrownPhD,

Bo FernhallPhD,

Robert W. MotlPhD, and

Stamatis AgiovlasitisPhD, ACSM-CEP

Jack H. Wilmore, PhD, FACSM

Mechanistic Effects of Exercise Training in Preventing or Attenuating Atherosclerosis

INTRODUCTION

Exercise as Medicine in Rheumatoid Arthritis: Effects on Function, Body Composition, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk

INTRODUCTION

Increasing Physical Activity in Children: An Intrinsic Creative Movement and Creative Dance Approach

INTRODUCTION

Exercise Testing and Training in a High School Athlete Following Atrial Septal Defect Repair

BACKGROUND

Point/Counterpoint

Cardiac Rehabilitation Staffing: The Clinical Exercise Physiologist

Clinical Trials Potpourri

Anabolic Exercise in Haemodialysis Patients: A Randomised Controlled Pilot Study

Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors and Arterial Health in Adults With Down Syndrome

Health Care Professionals’ Promotion of Exercise Referral Schemes in New South Wales

Enrolling Patients With Claudication into Supervised Exercise Therapy: A Single-Center Experience

Farewell, but Not Goodbye

Feasibility of Noninvasive Diastolic Stress Testing in the 10- to 21-Year-Old Age Group